Poland already officially threatening veto against EU budget, which can cost PLN 240bn

Warsaw has already officially threatened to veto the arrangements for the new EU Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021-2027. It is about – as in the case of Hungary – opposition to the regulation which makes the payment of EU funds dependent on compliance with the rule of law.

Previously, Poland threatened veto unofficially. For example, Jarosław Kaczyński, the president of Law and Justice, spoke about it in an interview for Gazeta Polska Codziennie, but it was before the government reconstruction, after which he took the position of deputy prime minister for security.

It is now known that Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, like the head of the Hungarian government Viktor Orbán two days ago, sent an official letter on this matter to the heads of EU institutions – the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and the President of the European Council Charles Michel – and to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Germany currently holds the EU presidency, which coordinates budget negotiations.

In his letter, the Polish prime minister threatened that Poland would reject the arrangements regarding EU finances in the years 2021-2027. According to sources in Brussels, it stated that Poland "cannot accept the budget in its present form".

EU officials confirm that Morawiecki's letter is in a softer tone than Orbán's letter. 

"Although Hungary is committed to cooperation, in light of the current developments, it is unable to guarantee the unanimity necessary to adopt the financial package," the head of the Hungarian government wrote.

According to the largest entrepreneurs in Poland, the attitude of the government, which is threatening a veto on the EU budget, deprives Poland of over PLN 240 billion of aid, "without which employers will not be able to save their companies, and the existing sales and supply chains will be destroyed". "The European Union can do without Poland, Poland without the Union - no!," the Entrepreneurship Council appealed to the leaders of the United Right, Jarosław Kaczyński, Zbigniew Ziobro and Jarosław Gowin.

(EURACTIV.pl, Business Insider)