Journal informthat the PiS government is “intensifying political action” to reclaim land from the former Polish-Czechoslovak border. The problem has dragged on since the 1990s, and in 2005 the Czech Republic offered Poland financial compensation for lost land. However, the proposal was rejected.

Law and Justice MP Jarosław Krajewski will “mobilize” the government to resolve disputed land issues. He denied accusations by PO MEP and former border mayor of Cieszyn Jan Olbrycht, who believed wartime in Ukraine was a bad time to “deal with controversial issues with neighbors”. Krajewski believes that “there will never be a good time to enforce a claim”.

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In 1958, there was a final border agreement with Czechoslovakia after World War II. At that time, a significant correction of the borders between the countries took place – the authorities of the Polish People’s Republic transferred 1,205.9 ha of land to Czechoslovakia, and the Czech Republic to the Polish side – 837.46 ha. Called the border debt, of which 368.44 ha had to be sent to Poland. This is a relatively small area, just a large farm.

Therefore, more than 60 years have passed since the entry into force of the interstate agreement on the final demarcation of borders, and the issue of the Czech Republic’s territorial debt to Poland is still not resolved. Despite the fact that the Polish-Czech Permanent Border Commission has been trying to solve this problem since the first half of the 1990s, it has stalled.

In the first quarter of last year, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zbigniew Rau discussed the matter with the Czech side. A letter was also sent to Prague saying that it was necessary to return to official talks. The then Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babisz replied that the debt issue should be raised during intergovernmental consultations. However, the problem has faded – because of elections in the Czech Republic, but also because of the open conflict over the Turów mine.

Repair from Germany. Mularczyk: I’ll give you five years to solve this problem

PiS President Jarosław Kaczyński announced last Thursday that Poland would demand compensation from Germany for the damage caused during World War II. – This is our goal, which is part of the overall concept of restoring normality when it comes to the functioning of the Polish state – he said. The presented report on war reparations calculated Poland’s losses in excess of PLN 6 billion 220 billion.

– We know that we are entering a path that will last a long time and will not be easy. We do not announce success very quickly – explains Jarosław Kaczyński. Arkadiusz Mularczyk, the head of the team who estimated Poland’s losses, had a different opinion. – I gave five years to solve this problem, I think Germany has no arguments, neither political nor legal, to avoid it – said MP Mularczyk in an interview with PAP. He added that war crimes do not end and “may be prosecuted until the end of the world.”