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Germany should 'lead new EU' after Brexit: Polish statesman [Lech Walesa]
TheLocal.de ^ | 17 Jun 2016 09:52 GMT+02:00 | (AFP)

Posted on 06/18/2016 4:40:02 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Polish president Lech Wałęsa believes Germany should lead either a deeply reformed, or an entirely rebuilt EU, in the wake of a possible Brexit.

Wałęsa’s comments come as a series of opinion polls show a growing lead for the campaign rallying British voters to leave the 28-nation EU in a landmark referendum on June 23rd.

“Germany in particular must calculate what would be better for development (of the EU): do we create a completely new organization… or do we fix the old EU?” Wałęsa told AFP during an interview in Gdańsk, the cradle of Poland’s 1980s anti-communist Solidarity movement.

“It’s up to the Germans to decide because they are the leaders and they must also decide with whom they want to build’ the new EU, he added. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Germany; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: adamandrzejewski; angelamerkel; brexit; brixit; europeanunion; eussr; fourthreich; germany; lechwalesa; nato; poland; unitedkingdom

1 posted on 06/18/2016 4:40:02 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

does he want the EU to become an Islamic caliphate or something?


2 posted on 06/18/2016 4:41:11 AM PDT by ErikJohnsky
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To: Olog-hai

Was ist des Deutschen Vaterland? Von der Maas bis an die Memel, von der Etsch bis an den Belt, I suppose.


3 posted on 06/18/2016 4:45:21 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The polls can have a strong influence on the weak-minded)
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To: Olog-hai
Lech, I would have thought you'd know better. Did you forget about the days when Poland was ruled by a far-away capital in another country?
4 posted on 06/18/2016 4:46:07 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Olog-hai

I’ve seen this movie before. I know how it ends


5 posted on 06/18/2016 4:49:35 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Olog-hai

Hitler would have took the EU as a consolation prize.


6 posted on 06/18/2016 5:21:56 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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Germany would need a new leader and toss that Merkel character out on her ass quickly.


7 posted on 06/18/2016 5:26:29 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: Olog-hai

He has gone off his meds again.


8 posted on 06/18/2016 5:28:16 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: Olog-hai

Poland should lead, and eliminate the threat to Christendom.


9 posted on 06/18/2016 7:00:50 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We can't fix a rigged system by relying on the people who rigged it." --Donald Trump, 6/7/16)
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To: Jim Noble

If Britain leaves EU, does that make Germany the dominant power in Europe?


10 posted on 06/18/2016 7:17:04 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Olog-hai

The Krauts got what they wanted after all. Pretty clever.


11 posted on 06/18/2016 7:37:18 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: elcid1970

Germany is already that. Thatcher pointed that out as far back as 1995.


12 posted on 06/18/2016 8:03:50 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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I wonder by how much the current Merkel-led Muslim invasion is going to weaken German society and the ability to drive its economy. Real question.


13 posted on 06/18/2016 8:05:47 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Olog-hai

Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.


14 posted on 06/18/2016 10:46:26 PM PDT by Laser_Ray (Another nifty idea)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Gosh, what a great idea. ;') Economically, Germany does lead the EU. Politically Germany leads it around by the nose, or tries to. Thanks Olog-hai.

15 posted on 06/26/2016 11:32:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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“Polish statesman [Lech Walesa]”

Dude is not any statesman but an utter imbecile and commies’ agent.


16 posted on 06/28/2016 1:50:35 PM PDT by Grzegorz 246
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