Over the years, the European Union and the United States have worked together to ensure peace and prosperity for our citizens and for people around the world.

I am glad that Angela Merkel is the German Chancellor, as she tries to combine a sense of responsibility with morality and values. Because this is the essence of Europe.

What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as liberal democracy, free markets and Europe with suspicion.

My Kashubian family, like the Jews, are people who were born and live in border areas and were suspected by the Nazis and by the Communists of being disloyal.

Over the years, the European Union and the United States have worked together to ensure peace and prosperity for our citizens and for people around the world.

Many militant conflicts began with war-like words. The blame game is currently more popular in the EU than football. But maybe there is also a good side to this. We now talk more honestly and emotionally with each other. Not in the soulless Euro-lingo of earlier times.

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.