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Berlin to Buy Warsaw's Silence
Simon Araloff, AIA European section, 18.04.2006
Diplomatic sources in Warsaw and Berlin inform that the German leadership lately makes vigorous efforts to involve Poland in Germany's economic and political relations with Russia... Considering the necessity of further cooperation between the railway companies of Germany, Poland, Belarus, and Russia, the German side proposed the Polish state-owned railway company - Polskie Koleje Panstwowe (PKP) – to sign a relevant agreement with participation of the Russians... In this context it is appropriate to mention the efforts that Berlin has been making of late to neutralize the Baltic States' counteraction to broadening of the German-Russian cooperation in the energy sphere. According to the diplomatic sources in Berlin, such efforts already took some positive effect in case of Latvia and Estonia, and the next in line is Lithuania, the Prime-Minister of which is scheduled to visit the German capital in the near future.
IN SOSTANZA: It is perfectly clear that the attractive economical propositions to Warsaw, like the abovementioned partnership in railway sphere, serve the same purpose of breaking down the unified Polish-Baltic front that still confronts Berlin's and Moscow's attempts to rehash the energy and geopolitical map of Europe. In this connection it is also appropriate to recall the German leadership's generous compromise to Poland during recent discussion of the EU budget. It seems that Warsaw is ready to sacrifice its rather amorphous principles in exchange for a real amount in hard currency…

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