Fascist Flags on Poland’s 100th Birthday Show a Fractured Europe
Centenary commemorations in Paris and Warsaw on Sunday exposed the widening divisions within Europe.
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Europe’s fault lines were on full display at the weekend as France and Germany made a show of unity at a World War I commemoration in Paris and Poland’s leaders marched through Warsaw with far-right groups.
Police estimated more than 200,000 people converged on the Polish capital on Sunday to mark the centenary of the country’s hard-fought independence in 1918. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the governing party and Poland’s most powerful politician, said the event was a “great success.” Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron was slamming the rise of nationalism that threatens to undermine the European Union.