http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2430763/Lech-Walesa-says-Poland-join-Germany-expand-economic-defence-cooperation.html
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Fury in Poland as former leader Lech Walesa says the country should unite with Germany to 'expand economic and defence cooperation'
- Ex-Polish president demanded eroding borders between European states
- Claimed the old borders no longer mattered and globalisation is 'on horizon'
- Said Poland and Germany could unite as latter had admitted its war crimes
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Former Polish President Lech Walesa has demanded an eroding of borders between major nation states on the continent
The former Solidarity trade union leader shocked his follow Poles by demanding an eroding of borders between major nation states on the continent.
We need to expand economic and defence cooperation and other structures to make from the states of Poland and Germany one state of Europe,' said the mustachioed Walesa, 70 this month, who was a staunch opponent of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe whose historic industrial action in the Gdansk shipyards ushered in a new era freedom and democracy.
'We have gone so far in our technical advancements that we are no longer located in our own countries,' he told Russian news agency Itar-Tass.
'There is a broadening of geographical structures, while the economy and democracy should also be altered.'
He insisted that the uniting of his Polish homeland which its bitter wartime enemy Germany was not only possible but the logical conclusion of his own historic role in dismantling the Iron Curtain.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/10330826/Poland-and-Germany-should-unite-says-Lech-Walesa.html
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Poland and Germany should unite, says Lech Walesa
Lech Walesa has called for Poland to unite with Germany to form one European state, despite the bloody history between the two countries.
Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Polish president Lech Walesa Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES
The Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Polish president, whose Solidarity trade union played a key role in bringing an end to the Cold War, said the world had changed and needed new ways of organising itself.
“We need to expand economic and defence co-operation and other structures to create one state from Poland and Germany in Europe,” he said.
Speaking to Russia’s Itar-Tass news agency, Mr Walesa, 69, said national boundaries were not as relevant as they once were.
“We have travelled so far in our technical advancements that we are no longer located in our own countries,” he said, adding that this required changes to geographical structures, the economy and democracy.
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More to read about Walesa's unification idea:
https://www.google.co.uk/#q=walesa+germany+poland
