Warsaw's farsighted support for Berlin

The Polish opposition leader Jarosław Kaczyński called for Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski to be brought before a tribunal on Tuesday. The day before Sikorski had been the first member of the Polish government to say that Germany should take the helm in Europe's crisis. Adam Michnik, chief editor of the liberal daily Tageszeitung Gazeta Wyborcza, sides with Sikorski: "The swift and radical action Sidorski has called for could be risky but in his eyes to remain passive would be even more risky. These statements are an indication of the farsightedness of the Polish government and the start of an important European debate. The reaction of demagogic opposition of the type displayed by Kaczyński and [his former party colleague] Ziobro is pathetic and saddening. ... They brandish the threat of a Fourth Reich and a tribunal for Sikorski. The Polish minister responded that he was waiting for the proposals of the PiS [Kaczyński's party] as to how the EU can be saved. I doubt he was presented with any."

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