German chancellor Angela Merkel declined to comment on Saturday on a Polish law that imposes jail terms for suggesting the country was complicit in the Holocaust, saying she did not want to wade into Poland’s internal affairs. She was responding to a question from a student who had asked whether the new Polish law curbs freedom of expression. Signed into lawIsrael and the United States criticised President Andrzej Duda for signing the bill into law this week. Prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki will hold talks with Ms Merkel in Berlin next week. Israel’s reaction to the new law was anti-Polish, and showed it was clearly fighting to keep the monopoly on the Holocaust, he said.

Source: The Irish Times February 10, 2018 21:11 UTC