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Wprost (Polish pronunciation: [ˈfprɔst] "Direct") is a weekly newsmagazine in Poland. It was founded on December 5, 1982 as a regional magazine in Greater Poland, but since 1989 it has been distributed nationwide. The editorial office is currently located in Warsaw. Wprost is an opinion weekly focused on politics and society. Marek Król is the publisher of the magazine and Stanis³aw Janecki is the editor-in-chief. Wprost is the second most popular opinion weekly in Poland with a circulation of 150,000 copies (as of June 2006). Its online edition is one of the most popular websites in Poland.
Past and present contributors include: Leszek Balcerowicz, Kevin Hogan, Gordon Thomas, Szewach Weiss, Lech Wa³êsa, Leszek Miller, Rafa³ A. Ziemkiewicz, and Stanis³aw Tym.
Some controversial and acclaimed articles have included criticism of the Polish Army SFOR contingent in Bosnia (1998) and accusations against the former president of Poland, Aleksander Kwa¶niewski, and his "mafia" (2005).
Wprost has been criticized in the past for its controversial title pages, criticizing German politics by caricaturing German state officials (for example naked Angela Merkel breastfeeding Lech Kaczyñski and Jaros³aw Kaczyñski) and making some analogies to Nazi Germany.[1][2]
It happened 6 months ago
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6245112.stm
German politicians have condemned a computer generated photo of Poland's leaders sucking the German Chancellor Angela Merkel's bare breasts. The image appears on the cover of the Polish weekly Wprost, and is titled "Stepmother of Europe". A Polish council overseeing ethics in the media said the montage overstepped "the limits of good taste". Germany's Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, called the image "tasteless".
Poland riles Germany with a lewd take on the motherland
Ian Traynor in Brussels and Kate Connolly in Berlin
The Guardian, Wednesday 27 June 2007
The cover of the Polish weekly Wprost shows a computer-generated image of Angela Merkel, suckling the nationalist twin rulers of Poland
The cover of the Polish weekly Wprost shows a computer-generated image of Angela Merkel, suckling the nationalist twin rulers of Poland. Photograph: EPA
A glossy magazine cover depicting a bare-breasted Angela Merkel suckling the nationalist twin rulers of Poland reignited tensions between Berlin and Warsaw days after a bad-tempered European summit nearly collapsed because of Polish resistance to a German blueprint on how to run the EU.
The right-wing Warsaw weekly magazine Wprost, which backs the conservative nationalist regime of the prime minister, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, and his twin brother, the president, Lech Kaczynski, has the cover of its latest issue as a montage showing "a beaming chancellor Merkel as "Europe's stepmother" baring her breasts to nourish the infant Polish twins.
In an article in the magazine, a Polish government official reacted to the weekend summit in Brussels, at which Poland stood alone threatening to wreck a deal and won big concessions from Mrs Merkel, by arguing that Germany was treating its eastern neighbour "neo-colonially" and refusing to accept it as a European partner. He accused Mrs Merkel of "humiliating" Poland at the summit because she was "full of complexes herself".
The magazine's treatment of Mrs Merkel was condemned across the political spectrum in Germany yesterday. "This montage is tasteless and does nothing to help German-Polish relations," said Rainer Brüderle, of the liberal Free Democrats.
Markus Meckel, of the Social Democrats, and head of the German-Polish parliamentary group, said: "It is quite unbelievable. Poland has lost so many friends over the past weeks and months. It should really think hard in the future about how it hopes to win them back."
In the run-up to last week's summit, the Polish prime minister stunned colleagues in Europe by seeking to parlay Polish suffering at the hands of the Nazis into greater power in EU councils. Had it not been for the Nazi occupation and murder of six million Poles, half of them Jews, Poland would be much bigger and more powerful in the EU, he argued.
Mr Kaczynski lost, but got a new EU voting system postponed, guaranteeing that in crucial talks on EU budgets in 2013-14, Warsaw will be in a much more powerful position than it might have been.
But Mariusz Muszynski, the Polish ministry official who advises on relations with Germany, said in Wprost that Berlin still refused to treat Poland as "a partner" in Europe. Wprost, which has a circulation of 700,000, has often used graphics to provoke Germany. Its editor-in-chief, Stanislaw Janecki, defended the latest image. "We just wanted to have a bit of fun," he told Spiegel Online. He said Mrs Merkel was admired in Poland "particularly with regard to relations with Russia".
But the timing of the latest stunt was awkward, as both governments sought to recover from the weekend showdown.
This cover is just funny. Besides, Mrs Merkel should be glad that her breasts are so nice.
Wprost magazine loves to shock its reades with scandalous covers. Nothing boosts the sales better than a little scandal. Look at others covers.
Polish Complex
Presidential Fiction
Heil Lepper
Women Get the Upper Hand in Bed
Therapy by Rywin
German Troyan Horse
We are getting out of Poland
Gas Encirclement of Poland
Tyrant Lukashenko
Sex scandal
Failure of President`s Poland
Regards for Putinochio
Past and present contributors include: Leszek Balcerowicz, Kevin Hogan, Gordon Thomas, Szewach Weiss, Lech Wa³êsa, Leszek Miller, Rafa³ A. Ziemkiewicz, and Stanis³aw Tym.
Some controversial and acclaimed articles have included criticism of the Polish Army SFOR contingent in Bosnia (1998) and accusations against the former president of Poland, Aleksander Kwa¶niewski, and his "mafia" (2005).
Wprost has been criticized in the past for its controversial title pages, criticizing German politics by caricaturing German state officials (for example naked Angela Merkel breastfeeding Lech Kaczyñski and Jaros³aw Kaczyñski) and making some analogies to Nazi Germany.[1][2]
It happened 6 months ago
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6245112.stm
German politicians have condemned a computer generated photo of Poland's leaders sucking the German Chancellor Angela Merkel's bare breasts. The image appears on the cover of the Polish weekly Wprost, and is titled "Stepmother of Europe". A Polish council overseeing ethics in the media said the montage overstepped "the limits of good taste". Germany's Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, called the image "tasteless".
Poland riles Germany with a lewd take on the motherland
Ian Traynor in Brussels and Kate Connolly in Berlin
The Guardian, Wednesday 27 June 2007
The cover of the Polish weekly Wprost shows a computer-generated image of Angela Merkel, suckling the nationalist twin rulers of Poland
The cover of the Polish weekly Wprost shows a computer-generated image of Angela Merkel, suckling the nationalist twin rulers of Poland. Photograph: EPA
A glossy magazine cover depicting a bare-breasted Angela Merkel suckling the nationalist twin rulers of Poland reignited tensions between Berlin and Warsaw days after a bad-tempered European summit nearly collapsed because of Polish resistance to a German blueprint on how to run the EU.
The right-wing Warsaw weekly magazine Wprost, which backs the conservative nationalist regime of the prime minister, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, and his twin brother, the president, Lech Kaczynski, has the cover of its latest issue as a montage showing "a beaming chancellor Merkel as "Europe's stepmother" baring her breasts to nourish the infant Polish twins.
In an article in the magazine, a Polish government official reacted to the weekend summit in Brussels, at which Poland stood alone threatening to wreck a deal and won big concessions from Mrs Merkel, by arguing that Germany was treating its eastern neighbour "neo-colonially" and refusing to accept it as a European partner. He accused Mrs Merkel of "humiliating" Poland at the summit because she was "full of complexes herself".
The magazine's treatment of Mrs Merkel was condemned across the political spectrum in Germany yesterday. "This montage is tasteless and does nothing to help German-Polish relations," said Rainer Brüderle, of the liberal Free Democrats.
Markus Meckel, of the Social Democrats, and head of the German-Polish parliamentary group, said: "It is quite unbelievable. Poland has lost so many friends over the past weeks and months. It should really think hard in the future about how it hopes to win them back."
In the run-up to last week's summit, the Polish prime minister stunned colleagues in Europe by seeking to parlay Polish suffering at the hands of the Nazis into greater power in EU councils. Had it not been for the Nazi occupation and murder of six million Poles, half of them Jews, Poland would be much bigger and more powerful in the EU, he argued.
Mr Kaczynski lost, but got a new EU voting system postponed, guaranteeing that in crucial talks on EU budgets in 2013-14, Warsaw will be in a much more powerful position than it might have been.
But Mariusz Muszynski, the Polish ministry official who advises on relations with Germany, said in Wprost that Berlin still refused to treat Poland as "a partner" in Europe. Wprost, which has a circulation of 700,000, has often used graphics to provoke Germany. Its editor-in-chief, Stanislaw Janecki, defended the latest image. "We just wanted to have a bit of fun," he told Spiegel Online. He said Mrs Merkel was admired in Poland "particularly with regard to relations with Russia".
But the timing of the latest stunt was awkward, as both governments sought to recover from the weekend showdown.
This cover is just funny. Besides, Mrs Merkel should be glad that her breasts are so nice.
Wprost magazine loves to shock its reades with scandalous covers. Nothing boosts the sales better than a little scandal. Look at others covers.
Polish Complex
Presidential Fiction
Heil Lepper
Women Get the Upper Hand in Bed
Therapy by Rywin
German Troyan Horse
We are getting out of Poland
Gas Encirclement of Poland
Tyrant Lukashenko
Sex scandal
Failure of President`s Poland
Regards for Putinochio
