Former Polish President Lech Walesa believes that the European Union needs to make an organizational maneuver: dissolve itself and create a new union. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate Walesa stated this in an interview published on Saturday with the Interia portal.
According to Walesa, “The EU, instead of compromising with Poland, should disintegrate and create a new community in a few minutes.”
Germany and France should become its basis, but “already without Poland and Hungary.” The idea, according to him, is simple: “if we wanted to join a new union, then at the entrance, in addition to rights, we would have to accept obligations,” Walesa explained. And then these duties should be established in such a way that “the antics that occur today will no longer be repeated,” the politician said.
Walesa’s remarks concern the approval by the European Commission of a national plan for the restoration of Poland, which, in his opinion, would be a mistake: “this money will still be squandered and stolen.”
The former Polish president said that “without the rule of law, it makes no sense to donate billions of euros for nothing.”
The essence of the issue on which Walesa made statements is this: following the pandemic, the EU countries were allocated funds to restore the economy. But the approval of the recovery plan proposed by Poland was delayed due to the fact that the EU court imposed a fine of €1 million a day on the country until the decision to terminate the rules on the disciplinary chamber of the Supreme Court (SC) in the country is enforced.
The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, called the main conditions for the adoption of the Polish plan the liquidation of the disciplinary chamber of the Armed Forces, the abolition of decisions made in this body, as well as ensuring the independence of the choice of judges.
Last week, the Polish parliament approved the law on the Supreme Court, proposed by the president of the republic, by which the disciplinary chamber is being liquidated.
The European Commission on June 1 approved a plan to restore the economy of Poland.
Now the EU Council must approve this plan within a month, following which €35.4 billion will be allocated to Warsaw. But this, according to Von der Leinen, will only happen if all the requirements of the European Commission on judicial reform are met.
The Polish opposition, which includes Walesa, believes that the current authorities of the country, as before, violate the rule of law. And therefore, should not receive European money.
