Polish president depicted as potato in German paper

A GERMAN paper published photos comparing Poland’s president to a potato yesterday on the eve of a summit between Germany, Poland and France — five months after the three-way meeting was scrapped following a similar jibe.

Berlin’s left-wing Tageszeitung daily printed two pictures of Polish president Lech Kaczynski next to potatoes on its front page below the headline: “Which one of you is it that’s coming again?”

The paper sparked a furore in July when it called newly elected Kaczynski “Poland’s new potato” and said he was among “rogues who want to rule the world”. Diplomats said then the row scuppered a three-way summit, now set for today in Germany.