News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

@Zarastro

This was actually written by me on a wrong Nickname.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

@Ironside


You are either misinformed or lying here. Merkel never claimed that all people reaching Germany were refugees. In fact she stated already in September 2015 that only those who suffer from political prosecution and are fleeing from a warzone have any claim for political asylum. Something the English speaking press failed to draw attention to.


Another lie or misconception.


Another objectively wrong statement. When did Germany break the law with impunity? Poland is of course violating European law by not honoring the refugee deal.

Is this how you like to argue? With lies and wrong accusations?


Poland cares currently for 6000 refugees from the Ukraine. Not more, no less. All the others have not been acknowledged as refugees and are thus not entitled to any help by the Polish state.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

@SigSauer


You aren't. As explained before, refugees from Syria are no more likely to become criminal than others. Going that logic, you would have to ban immigration alltogether.


I don't know where you are from, and like you I don't want to make any assumptions, but it seems to me that your assumptions are based on a very distorted picture of the migrant situation, probably based on media coverage. I have noticed this while studying the media coverage of the refugee crisis in the British tabloids that most of them paint a completely exaggerated or even wrong picture of the situation here. Starting with the supposed content of Merkel's "invitation" in 2015. I recently talked with a few people from Sweden who told me something similar about the press coverage of their countries.

I mean honestly, two weeks ago an American student asked my professor whether or not it was safe for him to travel to Germany "because of the terrorists". Just after an American had killed almost 60 people, several times the number of Germans who have died so far because of Islamic terrorism.

There are certainly challenges here, but none that would qualify as "existential" to our culture. And a few thousand refugees would certainly be no threat to Poland's culture. This is just something eurosceptic parties are using as a pretext of rallying against the EU. By doing that they are betraying everything European values stand for (rule of law, morality).I just wished they would stop pretending to adhere to christian values at least.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

@Dirk diggler

I think we would all be very interested in your sources.... .

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


You claim that Merkel said that all people who reach Germany were refugees and that the German government would change the criterias for political syslum on a whim. Both are objectively false, or can you provide us with a source for these claims. You are either lying or intentionally misinformed.@Dirk diggler

@Dirk diggler


Yes, because those buisness men exploit a desperate situation. We had cases like this when e.g. a hotel owner charged for completely run down rooms more than 200€ per night. And why do we have this situation? Because a few countries have to deal with all refugees.


Another false claim. The Taliban were only recognized by two countries: Pakistan and Saudi-Arabia.

@gumishu

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


That was offered to Greece several times as far as I know. They always refused, citing their sovereignity as reason.

And even if Greece accepted, Turkey refused to take any refugees back.

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [214]

That just goes to show you how some people think.

An American kills almost 60 people but the guy in the Oval Office claims that this is not the time to discuss gun control.

A muslim kills 8 people and the same person says it is time for political action.

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [214]

@Dirk diggler
Things would not immediately change since there are already so many guns circulating in the USA, bit give it 10 years and we would see results. Mexico is not the standard you would want to meaure the USA, it is enough to measure them with any European country.

One of the main mistakes of the USA has been its' overreacting in the face of islamic terrorism. 9/11 was horrible, yet the war on terror has killed more Americans (and far more people from the invaded country), not to mention the financial and political costs with no tangible benefit. Meanwhile factors that could be changed like drug abuse and gun violence has claimed approx. 100k lifes. Does that really look like a reasonable calculation?

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [214]


Relatively few yes, and even fewer with guns.


Not sure how this relates to my statement. There is nothing to twist here, the facts are very clear. Gun violence is infinitely worse in the USA than it is in Europe, in any way you can measure it.

nytimes.com/2016/06/14/upshot/compare-these-gun-death-rates-the-us-is-in-a-different-world.html

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [214]


So you compare the USA with countries that suffer extremely from organized crime? Is this the new benchmark for the USA?


"Strict" perhaps by American standards, but are they comparable to European standards?


This issue is actually adressed in the article I provided.

Of course you'll always have people who have connections and get their guns, but you can make it more difficult for the "average" criminal or "lone-wolf" terrorist to get his hands on them. This is significant because those are the ones who are most difficult to detect before they commit a crime.

Not to mention that this might have a beneficial impact on the police force:

theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/the-counted-police-killings-us-vs-other-countries

News / Roman Polanski accused of unlawful sex with a minor [403]


Sure, if you want to get arrested.

News / Roman Polanski accused of unlawful sex with a minor [403]


I am not sure how the situation is in Poland (though I suspect it is comparable) but in Germany, the age of consent for sexual relations between minors is 14.

If you are over 18, he/she needs to be 16. And it is illegal to biy the service of a prostitute who is not at öeast 18 years old.

News / Roman Polanski accused of unlawful sex with a minor [403]


I don't know if you are really serious about this, but I'll humor you.

If she is under 18, you'll need the written consent of her parents to whom you'll have to show every picture before you sell it. None of those pictures are allowed to be in any way sexual suggestive, and there are also rules how much skin someone below 18 is allowed to show (as in only a bikini or a bathing suit is strictly forbidden).

News / Roman Polanski accused of unlawful sex with a minor [403]

@ygb


You can look it up, but I sincerely doubt that he got her parent's consent and even if he did, I doubt it was illegal. From what I remember, he only made those pictures after he sent her mother away.


The law is supposed to reflect real life. The intention behind this is e.g. that a school couple doesn't get into legal trouble because e.g. the boyfriend is 18 and his girlfriend is 17. It also covers people who are even older, but this can raise eyebrows and if someone reports you, the police would probably look into it. Not so long ago we had the case of a politician who had a relationship with a 16-years old girl and who was reported to the police. The police found no evidence for any foul play, but his public career was obviously over.


You can't see the difference between having a private relationship and posing for pictures which thanks to the internet will be around possibly forever and doings this as a job? Nevermind that this would open a lot of loopholes for child pornography, (which have unfortunately only been closed a few years ago), the law recognizes that people need to be of certain age before they can make such decisions and act responsible. You would have some serious issues, if you don#t acknowledge this.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2667]


It has everything to do with Poland if you want to argue whether Poland should have strict gun laws like the UK or less strict ones.

Frankly there should be any discussion since the USA is the best example why the right to own guns without very strict limitations is a very bad idea.


Now imagine if those people had access to guns... Things would be way worse.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2667]


Do you also notice that those mass shootings take place in the USA far more often than in any other Western country, even if you take the population size into consideration.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2667]

You are in more danger to your life if everyone owns guns, than if access is restricted.

News / EU confirms it will take action against Poland over court reforms [554]

@gumishu

Because the other EU members still had hope that Poland would return to sanity, but patience is obviously running out.

News / EU confirms it will take action against Poland over court reforms [554]


This is not true. In Germany, each judge needs to be approved by 2/3 of the members in both chambers of the German parliament.

@ Dirk please inform yourself about how the Eu works before you write your posts. Juncker is for example democratically elected, and the Visegrad group (with the exception of Hungary, but they might get under fire as well) have already stated that they won't back Poland over this.

News / EU confirms it will take action against Poland over court reforms [554]

@Dirk diggler

Juncker was elected by the European parliament which was in return elected by the European people, end of discussion. Just because you don't like him doesn't change his democratic legitimacy.


Sure, just like millions of Polish people have since the 2000s emigrated to other European countries. This has however nothing to do with the refugee situation.


When, in 2050? Maybe Poland will become a net payee in a few decades, but not sooner.

And yes, Poland will receive almost certainly less money from the next structural funds next time, which in return will last for several years. So the Polish people will have to suffer the consequences even after the current government is out of power. Which is sad, but a logical consequence.

News / EU confirms it will take action against Poland over court reforms [554]

@gumishu

I was talking about the Supreme Court since this is in Poland a point of contention.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2667]

@Dirk diggler

Just read those articles before you embarass yourself even more:

Gun violence rare in U.K. compared to U.S.

usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/06/16/gun-violence-united-kingdom-united-states/85994716

Police in Britain fired their guns just seven times in the last year

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-police-shooting-statistics-discharge-firearms-figures-freddie-gray-baton-killings-homicide-a7160391.html

So much for "quite a bit of shootings" in the UK.... .

News / EU confirms it will take action against Poland over court reforms [554]

@Dirk diggler


Out of all the stupid arguments against the EU by the Europhobic press, this is probably one of the most outstanding.

Somehow some people claim that the idea of a political Union is some sort of nefarious ploy that has only been implemented after countries joined because they were promised economic benefits.

Nobody who has any knowledge about the postwar European integration would ever come up with such an idea. Because political integration was always the idea behind the project, in fact the political founding fathers of the EU (Schuman, Jean Monnet, Konrad Adenauer among others) saw this as the most important long-term goal, because a United Europe would guarantee that there would be no further wars in Europe.

The European Coal and Steel Community was born out of the desire to control the ressources that could be used for war. Of course the politicians knew that European integration would also aid the economic recovery of the continent, and they used this as an argument why European integration was helpful, but if you read their speeches, they have made no secret behind their intentions (and a lot of people agreed and are still agreeing with them). I honestly don't know if the British people really voted to join because they were told this was exclusively an economic Union, certainly this was an important argument for the impoverished UK. But that would mean that the British people were willfully ignorant to the idea behind the EU (and its' predecessors) and if anything, reflects poorly on them. This is even more true for the Eastern European countries who joined even later. If you still believed that the EU was a solely economic project, I'd seriously question your judgement.

Law / Polish Citizenship for a foreigner whose parents was born in Poland [174]

Has your mother Polish citizenship?

Law / Polish Citizenship for a foreigner whose parents was born in Poland [174]

If she is, you'd be applicable for Polish citizenship as far as I know. You should check this.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2667]

It is just funny how the NRA tries to paint "Surprise gun inspections" as a bad thing. Americans might tolerate that every people - often children - die because weapons are not safely stored. But in Europe this is not acceptable.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2667]


I don't know why you keep bringing this up when so far nobody has used them in a high level crime in Europe (and to my knowledge) in the USA. Clearly it is less easy to produce those weapons than you think, or otherwise terrorists would have used them already.

Life / Health system in Poland one of the worst in Europe: report [78]

As someone who doesn't live in Poland, I can obviously not claim first-hand knowledge about this topic. However I do know that a large number of Polish doctors have migrated to Germany because of better working conditions which not only includes wages.

Which is of course great for Germany, but surely not for Poland. So Polish officials should think about how to stop this trend, and claiming that everything is "fine" is surely the worst way to proceed.

News / Americans incite hatred towards Russia in Polish media [75]

The most powerful politician in Poland believes a conspiracy theory that Russia had his brother assassinated and you believe that it is Western propaganda that is trying to drive a wedge between Poland and Russia?

News / Americans incite hatred towards Russia in Polish media [75]

The first sentence already made me stop. Calling the games in Sotchi "highly succesful" when we know today that Russia organized the doping of ifs' athletes on an unprecedented level shows what kind of writer this Steven Cohen is.