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16 July 2010
POLAND: Smolensk Plane Crash Investigation Turning Into A "Brasilian Soap Opera."
BLOOMBERG/ The Smolensk plane crash in April that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others provided a few weeks of national unity-- that has now turned into a political dogfight. “My country and the government behave worse than in a Brazilian soap opera,” Marek Siwiec, an EU parliament member from the Left Democratic Alliance, wrote on his blog. “Responsibility for the catastrophe has become a top theme of the political fight. When it will end? Shame.”
