Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the Law and Justice party, announced the huge claim at the release of a long-awaited report on the cost to the country of years of Nazi German occupation as it marks 83 years since the start of World War II.

“We not only prepared the report but we have also taken the decision as to the further steps,” Kaczynski said during the report’s presentation.

“We will turn to Germany to open negotiations on the reparations,” Kaczynski said, adding it will be a “long and not an easy path” but “one day will bring success.”

Poland’s right-wing government argues that the country which was the war’s first victim has not been fully compensated by neighboring Germany, which is now one of its major partners within the European Union.

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A legal team at the Bundestag scoured through an agreement signed by the two countries back in 1990, called the Two Plus Four Treaty, which paved the way for the reunification of East and West Germany.

They came to the conclusion that the wording of the legal document specifically “blocks any reparation demands against Germany to the present day,” according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper.

The revelations are likely to open up a fresh rift between Germany and Poland, who are separately at loggerheads over what Warsaw perceives as unjust meddling in its sovereignty by the European Union.

Earlier this month Polish ministers took the hugely incendiary step of preparing a £37 billion claim for war reparations from Berlin, which it argued should be paid to cover damage caused by the Second World War.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the extremely influential chief of the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), described the move to extract more cash from Germany as an “historical counteroffensive”.

He told a Polish radio station: “We are talking here about huge sums and also about the fact that Germany for many years refused to take responsibility for World War Two.”

And Ryszard Czarnecki, an MEP from his party, added: “If Jews have gotten compensation – and rightly so – for loss of property, why shouldn’t we also make claims?”

But Germany immediately rejected the claims, with a government spokeswoman saying the country had already “made significant reparations for general war damage, including to Poland, and is still paying significant compensation for Nazi wrongdoing.”

Poland is claiming that a waiver it signed in 1953, waiving its rights to war reparations, was done under duress whilst it was part of the Soviet Union and is therefore legally invalid.

But Berlin, keen to scotch the claim once and for all, got its own lawyers onto the case and found that the later 1990 treaty, signed a year after it regained independence, also precludes such a scenario.

The row comes at a tricky time for Germany and the EU, who are both at loggerheads with an increasingly angry and unpredictable Warsaw over several alleged infringements of European law.

Poland currently has ongoing infringement cases against it for failing to accept migrant quotas and for proposed amendments to its judicial system which eurocrats say would give the Government too much power over judges.

It has also angered Brussels and environmentalists by refusing to stop logging in the Białowieża forest – Europe’s last prehistoric woodland – despite being ordered to do so by the European Court of Justice.

Source: http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/848775/European-Union-German-lawyers-reject-Polish-demand-WW2-reparations

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Relations between Berlin and Warsaw are at boiling point as the EU threatens to mobilise Article 7 against Poland – the so-called nuclear option.

The nation would lose its voting rights if the extraordinary measure is used.

Now, a new row is erupting as Polish MPs call for Germany to pay Poland PLN 1.5 trillion (EUR 350 billion, USD 420 billion) in reparations for invading the country during WWII.

Marek Jakubiak, a deputy for the anti-establishment Kukiz’ 15 grouping, followed similar comments from his conservative peers.

Jakubiak told public broadcaster Polish Radio: “The fact that we are a poor country does not come from the fact that we are idiots. The Germans burned our homeland. We we lost 50 years.

“I do not want a war with the Germans, I do not want bad relations with Germany… The Germans have to pay for the damage done to Poland and then we will talk normally as partners.”

Jarosław Kaczyński, head of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party revealed the matter is on his mind at a convention in July.

He said gargantuan damages caused to his country were “really still not made up for”.

PiS deputy Arkadiusz Mularczyk wants a report on whether demanding reparations from Germany is feasible.

The final report will be ready by the middle of August.

During the invasion by Hitler’s Nazis from 1939 to 1945, Poland lost nearly six million Poles, Mularczyk said.

The politician claimed seeking war reparations from Germany was a “moral duty”.

Source: http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/838276/Poland-Germany-War-Crimes-billions-report

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