PM calls for a “completely new framework” for the EU

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, writing in French Le Monde, accuses many EU member states of refusing to listen to Polish warnings about the threat of Russia for years.“Europe finds itself in its present situation not because it is insufficiently integrated, but because it refused to hear the truth,” he said. “The voice that could be heard from Poland for several years.”

 Morawiecki argues against majority voting, saying it would be a model “where the strongest and largest dominate the weakest and smallest”. “On paper, all member states are equal. But the political reality shows that the weight of the German and French voices is dominant. We are dealing with a formal democracy but a de facto oligarchy where the power is held by those who are the strongest,” he said.

 He says member states should think of a “completely new framework” and admit the EU has not been up to the challenge of the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine. 

(Polskie Radio)