I bet it has something to do with not pissing off the Russians....
ZERO apology tour uninvitee.
President Lech Kaczynski is in good company but I guess this is not the change most were hoping for.
How incredibly contemptible, to ignore, say, the sacrifice of the Polish paratroopers, just to name a few, for a petty political point???
The French officials are woefully ignorant of history. US troops were a minority in the "American Sector"; the British contingent was just as large and the Canadians sent half as many as the Americans did on D-Day.
The French seem to be messing this up badly.
The Poles and the Queen should crash the festivities by showing up in a landing craft.
Poles did a lot more to defeat the Nazis than the French ever did.
that Poland made a tangible contribution to the liberation of France, recalling the 15, 000-strong Polish division under the command of General Maczek and the participation of some 50, 000 Poles in the French resistance movement... The French side says that it regards the celebrations of battles in what was in the American sector of the war as primarily a "Franco-American affair" and that is why President Obama will be a guest and not heads of state from other nations. On D-Day, 6 June 1944, the Allies landed around 156,000 troops in Normandy. Apart from British and American troops, personnel from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Poland took part in the landings.
Poland, because of her conservative Christian values, is a thorn in the back of antichristian European Union.
Poland's refusal to accept so called same-sex marriages, abortion, euthanasia, etc. makes some influential EU leaders and officials (e.g. Zapatero) furious.
It's good to see and hear what EU politicians say about the 20 anniversary of the fall of communism in Europe, where Poland's contribution is almost neglected. Listening to them carefully you can conclude the communism was defeated by Germans who broke down the Berlin Wall. Not a single word of JP2 and his first visit to Poland in 1979, not a single word about Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, not a single word of Polish massive protests of 1988 which actually forced communists to give up the power, etc.
Ruling liberals, who form the EPP party together with Erika Steinbach’s CDU/CSU, don't give a damn for it. They boast about their belonging to the EU greatest party EPP, but when it comes to the crunch they even deny a great Polish war hero, cpt.Pilecki, who was once proposed at the session of the EU parliament to become a shared EU hero for freedom against any totalitarian systems like communism and fascism. Liberals of the Civic Platform denied him because their party comrades of CDU had some objections. None of them even tried to resist.
On the other hand, president Kaczynski, whose party Law and Justice forms the common party with British and Czech Conservatives in the EU parliament, is well aware of the fact that under the Treaty of Lisbon Britain and Czech alone are not enough to form a coalition that could even veto any EU decisions.
With such pro-EU fanatics within Poland and such EU anti-Polonism abroad, Treaty of Lisbon has definitely lost its original meaning and may even, in some circumstances, pose the serious threat to Poland's sovereignty.
Such a patriotic attitude of President Kaczynski is simply unacceptable by Germans and the French. They'd love to have him under their feet. Since they can't obtain it, they try to ignore him. And that's it what this all about is.