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Poland: Right-winger plays down foreign fears over democracy

by Our Foreign Desk

RIGHT-WING Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski challenged negative assessments of political life in his country yesterday, suggesting that the shape of Poland’s democracy is better than some foreign commentators suggest.

He invited German politicians to visit and check after summoning Berlin’s ambassador to Warsaw, Rolf Nikel, to receive a protest over “anti-Polish” statements by some of them.

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