Weimar Triangle celebrates 20 year anniversary
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
30.08.2011 11:43
Former prime and foreign ministers attended the 20th anniversary meeting of the so-called Weimar Triangle on Monday, a forum for dialogue and cooperation between Poland, Germany and France.
The anniversary meeting in Weimar, Germany, was attended by former French foreign minister Roland Dumas and Poland’s first non-communist prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki.
Former German foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher said that Poland should be included in the talks on resolving the finance crisis in the euro zone.
He said that it is the Triangle that should lobby for Warsaw’s participation in such talks.
Poland can serve as an example of how economic problems, currently besetting the European Union, can be resolved, he added.
Poland, France and Germany should take the future of Europe into their hands, according to the former foreign minister, and make the European Union aware of its responsibility for its own future and that of the whole world.
It was unanimous at the meeting that the Weimar Triangle needs a new lease of life as the goals which had been set two decades ago are no longer valid.
What is now needed is the development of cooperation at the level of civic society, and particularly youth exchanges.
The principal goal of the Triangle, when it was established in August 1991, was to assist Poland in its efforts to join the European Union. (mk/pg)