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Inspecting war damage in Georgia. Analysts say the German-blocked MAP would have prevented the conflict, which ended in Russian occupation of two Georgian provinces (Photo: diplomatie.gouv.fr)

Polish FM in Wikileaks: Germany is Russia's Trojan horse

Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski in a private conversation with US diplomats in 2008 said that Germany protects Russian interests in Nato in return for access to the Russian market.

According to a US cable recently published by Wikileaks, Sikorski, in a conversation with the then US under secretary for global affairs Paula Dobriansky in Warsaw on 23 April 2008 "wryly commented that many accused Poland of being the...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

Inspecting war damage in Georgia. Analysts say the German-blocked MAP would have prevented the conflict, which ended in Russian occupation of two Georgian provinces (Photo: diplomatie.gouv.fr)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

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