Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons

My words from early August proved prophetic. Mr Prime Minister Tusk had just gone to the EU to negotiate unblocking the funds for Poland. 57 billion euros.

Thank you, Mr Tusk!!!

Mr MacShane, former UK Labour Minister of State for Europe, commenting on the narrative of the British mainstream media regarding the trend of increasing support for right-wing groups in Europe, said this:

"Fortunately, this narrative was interrupted last month by the defeat of the anti-EU, anti-women, homophobic Law and Justice party in the Polish elections," MacShane wrote.

Mr Arkadiusz Mularczyk, rightist deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, replied:

It is extremely worrying how a former UK Labour Minister of State for Europe can defame Law and Justice & Poland in this way & that a media source can allow these defamatory statements to be published. Law & Justice refutes these claims in the strongest possible terms. I call upon @TheNewEuropean to change this text as soon as possible. Statements like this must not be left unchallenged.

Mr McShane replied to Mr Mularczyk:
Sorry Pan Mularczyk. You will have now time to reflect on why Poland's voters said Goodbye to PiS. Your attack on women, on judicial independence, on free journalism goes against every Polish tradition I know and admire. I hope a sensible party supporting European values emerges

PS. Holy words!!

PS2. A little riddle - whose words do I consider holy????? :):):):)

PS3. Did Mr MacShane deliberately used Polish "Pan" Mularczyk instead of Mr Mularczyk for a funnier effect????

Use, of course. This mistake means I need to turn in on my Jap sumo wrest mattress. Yaaaaaawn........

Can you imagine that PiS gangster Mularczyk replied to it with:

Thank you for your apology @DenisMacShane However, the article that is online still contains a libellous comment. I call on you to contact The New European editorial team and make the necessary edit.

hahahaha

Either Mularczyk is lousy at English and truly doesn`t understand there was no apology but only irony or he is selling a typical rightist lie to his homo sovieticus voters.

Dr MacShane speaks Polish as well as both English and French and certainly knows how to choose words carefully in all three languages.

His name as a child, by the way, was Josef Denis Matyjaszek.

So why did he change his name? There was no forced assimilation of Poles in England during and after WW2

He was working for the BBC as a sports reporter and they asked him to change it - so he used his Mum's name.

Was deported from Poland once by the commies in the 80s.

An interesting guy who certainly knows more about Polish affairs than some other Polonia.

Because as many Britiish can pronounce Matyjaszek as there are Poles who can pronounce Threaplethwaite or Cholmondely.


Not unusual for work reasons regardless of the countries/nationalities involved. In politics too. The mayor of my city was from Poland but had an English surname.

Can you imagine some small town folks many years ago choosing the one name on the ballot paper that they can't pronounce?


This is certainly true, however a far as pompous and conceited goes, he's off the scale.

And don't forget about the Duke of Buccleuch ;)

Is this yours "Chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie..."

No. We have tonguetwisters too. Those are just surnames/places.

There are some surnames there that are difficult for outsiders. It's not easy to explain that the surnames Dalziel and Dalyell are pronounced identically.

Oh don't confuse them with that Scottish z. Who knew that Menzies is really Mingis?

Or that Strachan is Strawn, or that Strabolgi or Andrewatha are old British names.