Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, said the European Union (EU) is democratic in name only, accusing Germany and France of constituting an “oligarchy” that controls other member states. The criticism was made through an opinion article signed by the government official in the digital edition of the German newspaper Die Welt.
“On paper, all member states are equal,” he wrote. “But the political reality shows that the weight of the German and French voices is dominant. We are facing a formal democracy, but an oligarchy in factin which power is in the hands of the strongest.
Morawiecki accuses the two “dominant countries of the bloc” of ignoring warnings about Russia’s expansionist claims: “Europe finds itself in the current situation, not because it is not sufficiently integrated, but because it refused to listen to the truth,” he wrote. Morawiecki, in allusion to the warnings that his country had already made in relation to the Kremlin.
Like Russian imperialism, considers the Polish prime minister, the threat of “imperialism within the EU” must also be combated. “It is the Member States and not the EU institutions that should decide the direction and priorities of EU action.”
Mateusz Morawiecki advocated the creation of measures capable of putting “the common good and equality at the top of the EU principles”, defending the search for consensus as the main mode of cooperation between countries – as opposed to the “government of the most strong” .
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The turbulent relationship between Poland and the European Union had already been demonstrated when, in November 2020, Warsaw, together with Hungary, blocked access to the EU’s multi-annual budget, due to disagreement over the mechanism that conditioned access to funds from the European Union. communities —which delayed the closure of the “European bazooka” that came to help countries combat the crisis generated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Source: Observadora
