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Comas, José
2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Regional elections in Hesse and Lower Saxony
José Comas considers that the defeat of Roland Koch is "a magnificent illustration of the electorate's maturity. Contrary to 1999, the campaign against the duel nationality of immigrants which allowed him to become presidency of the state of Hesse, didn't work this time. Koch's attempt to mobilise the silent majority with xenophobic and outdated anti-communism have backfired for he could even, according to provisional results, lose his presidency of this state. Koch's defeat is of benefit for Merkel (CDU) because the chancellor had reluctantly played a part in his populist campaign. This defeat is distancing the danger posed by one of the CDU's most ambitious politicians, a rival who kept on cutting the ground from under her feet."
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Poland faces heavy demands for compensation
"Jews and Polish citizens of other faiths, who were victims communist nationalisation or expropriation carried out by Nazis during the Second World War, have joined forces for the first time in order to claim compensation from the Polish State", notes José Comas after a meeting of plaintiffs and government representatives in Warsaw on February 28th. "The problem of compensation is very complex in Poland. Other than Belarus, Poland is the only country that has not installed a system that provides compensation for victims of the Nazis or Communist nationalisations. ... Added to this is the fact that Polish borders were moved around 200 kilometres to the west after the Second World War. If we also take into account the threat of requests for compensation expressed by Germans who were expulsed in 1945 from their homeland in Silesia and the Pomerania, we will find ourselves with a practically irresolvable conflict."
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