Crass, amateurish and deplorably nationalistic. That is how the Brussels elite sums up the Polish government that has just left office. To many, the nationalistic label was the worst jibe of all. Ask Euro-types for a memory of the twins who ran the government, Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, and they are likely to recall the time when Jaroslaw, as prime minister, unsuccessfully demanded voting rights for his war dead. (Without the second world war, Mr Kaczynski argued in June, Poland would today have an extra 28m people, so should be given the votes of a bigger country.) This nationalistic sally broke all the rules of European Union behaviour, which dictate that the war may be cited only to highlight the miracle of post-war reconciliation.
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