(ANSA) - ROME - Twenty-five years of friendship are celebrated in Rome looking to Europe. Misunderstandings happened in recent and less recent years between Poland and Germany belong to the past: the future will be characterized by an even stronger integration, in order to help build the dream of a European Union without borders.

Monday, June 20 there will be a special meeting at the Embassy of Poland in Rome, where the Ambassador Tomasz Orowski, along with his German colleague, Susanne Wasum-Rainer, will promote a focus carried out by two leading experts and friends: Janusz Reiter, President of the Foundation Center of international relations and former Poland's ambassador to Berlin, and Norbert Röttgen, former minister and Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag. On June 17, 1991, a reunified Germany and Poland, which had regained freedom and democracy, agreed on the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation signed by chancellor Helmut Kohl and Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki at the Chancellery in Bonn. The agreement included Germany's commitment to encouraging Poland's accession into the EU, which then occurred in 2004. The treaty was a natural consequence of the delineation of the border along the Oder and Neisse rivers, signed by the foreign ministers Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Krzysztof Skubiszewski on November 14, 1990. The border had been provisionally established in 1945 by the Allies through the Potsdam agreements. The fall of the Berlin Wall, the reunification and full sovereignty granted to Federal Germany have pushed towards the solution of the problem of the border recognition, according to international law. The process of reconciliation between Germany and Poland had already been started in 1965 with the famous and now historic letter written by Polish bishops to German bishops, which contained the significant statement: "We forgive and ask forgiveness". Today the situation is much different.

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