On February 7, the leaders of Germany, France and Poland met in Warsaw to revive a trilateral project so far failed. The crisis of the EU is a motivation more to achieve a breakthrough.
In twenty years of existence, the Weimar Triangle has been mostly a disappointment. So far, Warsaw, Berlin and Paris have failed to forge an alliance strong and durable, able to become the driving force of an enlarged Europe. But it is not impossible that they can succeed in the future.
The failures of the past are due on the one hand the excessive political ambitions of Poland and the other to short-termism and a lack of interest from German and French, who have always considered the poor relations.
Paris and Berlin in 2003 tried unsuccessfully to persuade Warsaw to oppose the American invasion of Iraq. The triangle collapsed in 2005, when Western Europe and Russia eventually agreed to build the Nord Stream gas pipeline that bypasses Poland, and in the war between Georgia and Russia in 2008, when the Polish president and the French did compete to get first in Tbilisi.
The Weimar Triangle was only a framework for informal meetings, whose realization would depend solely on the goodwill of politicians. The latter has been lacking so blatant in 2006, when Lech Kaczyński - offended by a caricature published in a German newspaper - canceled the summit of Weimar. Called to Warsaw
Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy, President of Poland Bronislaw Komorowski has tried to raise the platform of the three-party talks between Poland, Germany and France, especially in light of the crisis of the EU, which could create a rift between countries inside and outside the euro zone.
Under the auspices of the three leaders, meetings of the triangle should be held on a regular basis. It is also scheduled to meet with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. This new life of the triangle could be a success.
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