Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Poland and Germany Should Unite, Says Lech Walesa

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Lech Walesa has called for Poland to unite with Germany to form one European state despite the troubled and bloody history between the two countries.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Polish president who played a key role in bringing an end to the Cold War, ushering in Polish independence, said the world needed new ways of organising itself, and the UN and Nato were the "ideas of an old era" and "badly organised".

"We need to expand economic and defence cooperation and other structures to create one state from Poland and Germany in Europe," said the ex-leader of the Solidarity trade union. » | Matthew Day, Warsaw | Tuesday, September 24, 2013