Given that the state-run media used to fearmonger with horror stories about Germans before Tusks party won the last election… I’d think it’s only partly a joke. Tusk knows that there are Poles who still think Germans are all criminals (like vice versa in Germany).
I don’t think it was a joke
Germans think it’s funny.
Das genügt.
I haven’t heard the speech (tone, etc), but it does read like a joke.
Given that the state-run media used to fearmonger with horror stories about Germans before Tusks party won the last election… I’d think it’s only partly a joke. Tusk knows that there are Poles who still think Germans are all criminals (like vice versa in Germany).
Bashing Germany is always a crowd pleaser in Poland.