By Alfonso Lorenzo de Olmos
On December 22, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki made public a conversation he had with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and assured that the two countries are “fed up with the dictates of the European bureaucracy” and are forming an “informal alliance” to promote “renewal of the European Union”.
“A homeland Europe instead of a European superstate: we both agree on that,” Morawiecki said in an interview published Thursday with the Italian daily La Stampa, when asked about the shared views of Italy and Poland.
“Poles and Italians are fed up with the dictates of the European bureaucracy and want a real democracy. We want to renew the Union by returning to its founding principles,” he said in his first interview with an Italian newspaper since his personal friend Meloni took over Italy’s right-wing government.
Meloni recently charged that the decisions of Germany and France are more important than others within the European Union, despite the fact that they should all have the same impact on the supranational body. The Polish president supported the statement and launched a fierce attack against the Germans.
“We are already paying a high price for the mistakes of German policy in particular, and if the Berlin-based government decided everything, the price of gas would be even higher,” he began, pointing to Germany’s energy policy. , which for a pseudo-scientific Zeal to promote green energy, submitted to Russian dominance by depending on Russian gas supplies.
Despite ongoing criticism from the two right-wing governments for the reasons that led to the war in Ukraine, Morawiecki assured that they are the countries that support the Ukrainian cause the most. “Another thing that both countries have in common is their strong support for Ukraine,” said the Polish prime minister, recalling that both countries are closer to the conflict than Germany or France. “Vladimir Putin’s neo-imperialist policy is a serious danger not only for Kiev, but for all of Europe,” he concluded.
Morawiecki and Meloni are pressing the Macron and Scholz governments not to revoke the unanimity rule, which gives each member country an equal vote to the rest. France and Germany have said they consider this an obstacle to the Union’s decision-making process.
“Either there is the rule of unanimity or there is the tyranny of the strongest,” Morawiecki said, and assured that if the egalitarian structure of the Union is eliminated, “it is likely that there will be a new wave of resignations from the union,” he said, recalling Brexit- in.
In any case, Italy and Poland could not move the ammeter without the help of other countries. Hungary and the Visegrad countries, which also include Slovakia and the Czech Republic, and other allies such as Slovenia, Serbia and Croatia, are trying to generate the pressure needed to avoid a European dictatorship.
With information from La Derecha Diario.
