Vatic Note: I can understand Polands concern. Remember when the Polish President and members of the leadership of Poland were killed by Russians? We did a blog on that had video and writing text news and I had it all translated by an American citizen born in Poland? It proved that collusion was involved since the rabbi's that were going to travel with the President, all of a sudden pulled out from the planned trip and thus they did not die in the crash.
That was just a couple of years ago. It was quite a story at the time. It was a message to the Poles not to cooperate with NATO and Europe or pay the penalty. Plus NATO uses poland all the time and they are on the front line and basically demeaned b y the British. So, this was an understandable bargaining chip for them to use.
Poland Ready to Bargain With UK Over Migrant Ban: What Does it Want Back?
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160104/1032651480/poland-britain-migrants-bargain.html
By Admin, Sputnik News, January 4, 2016
Waszczykowski says Warsaw opposed any cuts in benefits in Britain that singled out potential recipients based on their origin.
Now, the country’s foreign minister says Poland wants to offset the impact of any benefit cuts for its citizens living in Britain by planning to offer a monthly cash payment to families with children, in the hope Polish workers will stay in Poland instead of emigrating.
"We're aware that the British welfare system is very elaborate and that it may not be able to bear it. We are therefore addressing this by increasing our benefits, and we also want to raise salaries in Poland," he said.
The politician admits that in return, “Britain could offer something to Poland in terms of international security.”
"It would be very difficult for us to accept any discrimination," Waszczykowski reiterated. "Unless Britain helped us really effectively with regard to the Polish defense ambitions at the summit in Warsaw."
In 2014, Poland's then foreign minister said he wanted the alliance
to station two NATO heavy brigades — typically between 3,000 and 5,000
troops — on Polish soil in response to what he described as “Russia's
intervention in Ukraine”.
The alliance is reluctant to permanently station troops in central Europe, with some states wary of violating a 1997 NATO-Russia agreement on the size of forces the alliance can have in former Warsaw Pact countries, of which Poland is one.
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That was just a couple of years ago. It was quite a story at the time. It was a message to the Poles not to cooperate with NATO and Europe or pay the penalty. Plus NATO uses poland all the time and they are on the front line and basically demeaned b y the British. So, this was an understandable bargaining chip for them to use.
Poland Ready to Bargain With UK Over Migrant Ban: What Does it Want Back?
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160104/1032651480/poland-britain-migrants-bargain.html
By Admin, Sputnik News, January 4, 2016
Poland says it is ready to soften its position on Cameron’s proposal to ban EU migrants from claiming in-work benefits during their first four years in the country, but it certainly wants something in return: London now promises it will help to bolster NATO’s presence in Poland to compensate for it feeling like “a second-class NATO member-state”.
Poland
could be open to compromise over British demands to limit the rights
of European Union migrants, the country’s Foreign Minister Witold
Waszczykowski told Reuters.
But it certainly wants something in return.
UK Prime Minister’s call for a four-year delay before EU migrants can claim certain UK welfare benefits is one of his key demands in renegotiations of Britain’s membership of the EU.
Cameron left Warsaw empty-handed last month after a visit to discuss his push, with Poland's Prime Minister Beata Szydlo saying further talks were needed, Reuters reminds.
UK Prime Minister’s call for a four-year delay before EU migrants can claim certain UK welfare benefits is one of his key demands in renegotiations of Britain’s membership of the EU.
The proposal has been widely criticized in the
EU and Poland has been one of its staunchest critics as there are
hundreds of thousands of Poles living in Britain.
The proposal is due to be discussed by EU heads of state at a summit in February.Cameron left Warsaw empty-handed last month after a visit to discuss his push, with Poland's Prime Minister Beata Szydlo saying further talks were needed, Reuters reminds.
Waszczykowski says Warsaw opposed any cuts in benefits in Britain that singled out potential recipients based on their origin.
Now, the country’s foreign minister says Poland wants to offset the impact of any benefit cuts for its citizens living in Britain by planning to offer a monthly cash payment to families with children, in the hope Polish workers will stay in Poland instead of emigrating.
"We're aware that the British welfare system is very elaborate and that it may not be able to bear it. We are therefore addressing this by increasing our benefits, and we also want to raise salaries in Poland," he said.
The politician admits that in return, “Britain could offer something to Poland in terms of international security.”
"It would be very difficult for us to accept any discrimination," Waszczykowski reiterated. "Unless Britain helped us really effectively with regard to the Polish defense ambitions at the summit in Warsaw."
"We still consider ourselves a second-class
NATO member-state, because in central Europe… there aren't, aside from a
token presence, any significant allied forces or defense installations,
which gives the Russians an excuse to play this region," he told
Reuters.
The alliance is reluctant to permanently station troops in central Europe, with some states wary of violating a 1997 NATO-Russia agreement on the size of forces the alliance can have in former Warsaw Pact countries, of which Poland is one.
Some western European allies have also been skeptical about basing
large numbers of troops and equipment in Poland at a time when defense
budgets are tight and question the military logic of tying down large
numbers of troops in one place.
"Britain could support our expectations related to an allied military presence on Polish territory," Waszczykowski said.
"Britain could support our expectations related to an allied military presence on Polish territory," Waszczykowski said.
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