Weimar Triangle
The Committee for the Promotion of German - French - Polish cooperation, known as the Weimar Triangle, is a loose foreign policy discussion and consultation forum of Germany, France and Poland.
Its objective is the coordination of the policies of the three countries and the strengthening of European integration, without excluding other states. It was originally the approach of Poland to the European Union and NATO.
Foundation
The founding of the Weimar Triangle dates back to a meeting of foreign ministers of the three countries, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Roland Dumas and Krzysztof Skubiszewski on August 28, 1991 at Weimar, Thuringia. Since then, these meetings are held the Secretary of State annually.
Work and results
During the 1990s, the forms of cooperation between the three countries were expanded. Since 1998 Summit of Heads of State and Government as well as meetings of various ministers will take place. In addition, joint projects on economic and cultural fields were initiated. The first informal meeting took place in 1993 in Gdansk, followed in 1998 in Poznan, 1999 in Nancy, 2001 in Neustadt on the Wine Route, 2003 in Wroclaw, again in 2005 in Nancy, 2006 in Mettlach and 2011 in Warsaw.
At the fifth Summit of Heads of State and Government on 19 May 2005 in Nancy, France, the three partners have exchanged on the following topics: The compliance with budgetary discipline within the European Union, the maintenance of the common agricultural policy, the solution of the problem of the " British rebate " relations between the European Union to the Russian Federation and Ukraine, the situation in the Middle East, the continued existence of the European social model and the summit of the United Nations.
In early 2006, doubted the then Polish President Lech Kaczyński on the meaning and purpose of the trilateral debating within the framework of the Weimar Triangle, because it could not come up with concrete results. The scheduled for July 3, 2006 summit with Angela Merkel and Jacques Chirac said Kaczynski shortly from because of a sudden stomach upset. The meeting was rescheduled on December 5, 2006 the Saarland Mettlach. Here, the three leaders of the Weimar Triangle primarily on current European and international issues have changed.
On 23 November 2007, the newly elected Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk campaigned in his first policy speech for a revival of the Weimar Triangle. In the meantime, have taken place at the organizational level of foreign ministers and several meetings. The last summit with participation of the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, President of Poland Bronisław Komorowski and German Chancellor Angela Merkel was held in Warsaw on 7 February 2011.