Polish and German leaders announced the dispute over World War II compensation claims between the two countries is over. Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder said their position was supported by a legal analysis drafted by both Polish and German experts at a regularly scheduled meeting in Krakow. According to the decision, which will be published soon, neither the property claims by Germans expelled from Poland after World War II nor the Polish demands for reparations from Germany have a legal basis. Earlier this year, a group of Germans who lost property from former German territories ceded to Poland after World War II demanded the Polish government return their expropriated property.They had filed compensation claims to the courts in Germany and the European Court. In retaliation, the Polish parliament passed a resolution in September calling on its government to submit reparation claims to Germany for losses suffered during the war.