After years of hesitation the Foreign Ministry announced plans to support Poles living in Germany fighting for their rights.

"We have received a declaration of support from the Foreign Ministry. It means a quality change in our relations," said Marek Wójcicki from the Polish Union in Germany.

The support concerns the start of a discussion with German authorities related to asymmetry in the way the German minority is treated by Poland and the Polish minority in Germany.

"We are trying to regain the status that we had before the war, a similar one that is possessed by the Danish, Frisians or the Sorbs," added Mr Wójcicki.

The aim of the discussion is to force the execution of the Polish-German Treaty of 1991.

Poland spends annually zł.38 million on maintaining education and other institutions for the German minority, while the Germans earmark a much smaller sum for the Polish minority.

Source: Rzeczpospolita