Poland’s new government has shed the country’s “negro mentality” when it comes to relations with the United States, Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said on Polish public television.
Waszczykowski’s use of murzyńskości, a phrase insulting in both Polish and English, was supposed to be his way of showing that Poland’s right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS) government has broken with the supposed servile attitude towards Washington demonstrated by the previous government.
Waszczykowski was defending the government’s foreign policy record at a time when President Andrzej Duda is under fire for not meeting one-on-one with Barack Obama during this week’s nuclear summit in Washington.
“There will be a short meeting because there isn’t time for more during a summit,” an irritated Waszczykowski told the television interviewer Tuesday.
Although Law and Justice has long seen the U.S. as Poland’s most reliable foreign policy ally, there is a strain in the relationship under the new government.
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