Warsaw and Paris have undoubtedly never been so in sync since the end of the Cold War in the analysis of the strategic situation of Europe and the Russian threat.
The two countries have just announced that they are working on signing a bilateral state treaty, modeled on the Franco-German and Franco-Italian treaties.
A sign far from trivial.
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Since 1989, it can be said without exaggeration that the Franco-Polish relationship had been a series of missed meetings, despite the immense expectations that Poland, in love with France for centuries, had entertained after the end of communism.
With their eyes fixed on the prospects of the Franco-Russian relationship, and exasperated by Warsaw's unconditional Atlanticism, French diplomats and politicians judged the Poles to be haunted by the threat of Russian imperialism, seeing in it an unfounded historical obsession.
“The Poles are exaggerating
,” they said, almost making them responsible for the recurring tensions…
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