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January 5th, 2013, 02:46 PM
http://www.thejournal.ie/polish-prime-minister-donald-tusk-irish-photo-742307-Jan2013/ POLISH PRIME MINISTER Donald Tusk has created a media storm after an embarrassing blunder at his 2013 – Year of the Polish Family press conference on Thursday.
The main photo backdrop was ironically not of a smiling and happy Polish family, but rather of Irish models and their very unSlavic-looking children.
Former mayor of Warsaw and leader of the Democratic party Pawel Piskorski wrote on Twitter that the mistake was ‘a bit shameful’.
It was an awkward start to the centre-right government’s New Year efforts to curtail the country’s alarming demographic slide, which is due to see Poland’s population fall from 38 million to 32 million by 2060. In contrast, the Irish population is predicted by Eurostat to grow by 48 per cent over the coming 45 years, despite current high levels of emigration.
Responding on TVN24 journalist Monika Olejnik’s popular ‘The Final Word’ programme, government spokesperson Pawel Gras said, “Such things happen, there’s nothing extraordinary about it.”
The photo was sourced from Wavebreak Media, a company based in Cork, founded and set up by Irish businessman Sean Prior in 2006. It employs over 20 full time and part time employees and has expanded rapidly into the international stock image market despite the economic crisis.
The main photo backdrop was ironically not of a smiling and happy Polish family, but rather of Irish models and their very unSlavic-looking children.
Former mayor of Warsaw and leader of the Democratic party Pawel Piskorski wrote on Twitter that the mistake was ‘a bit shameful’.
It was an awkward start to the centre-right government’s New Year efforts to curtail the country’s alarming demographic slide, which is due to see Poland’s population fall from 38 million to 32 million by 2060. In contrast, the Irish population is predicted by Eurostat to grow by 48 per cent over the coming 45 years, despite current high levels of emigration.
Responding on TVN24 journalist Monika Olejnik’s popular ‘The Final Word’ programme, government spokesperson Pawel Gras said, “Such things happen, there’s nothing extraordinary about it.”
The photo was sourced from Wavebreak Media, a company based in Cork, founded and set up by Irish businessman Sean Prior in 2006. It employs over 20 full time and part time employees and has expanded rapidly into the international stock image market despite the economic crisis.