Poland's ruling eurosceptic Pravo i Pravda party told French National Front leader Marine Le Pen today that it is not interested in dismantling the European Union (EU) together, and Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski denied that Jaroslav Kaczynski's conservatives would go along with French extreme nationalists.
"Law and Justice is not interested in dismantling the EU," said Beata Mazurek, spokeswoman for the Polish ruling party, to Marina Le Pen on Twitter, as soon as Le Pen's call to Kaczynski and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban appeared in the Polish newspaper Žečpospolita today that if she wins the presidential elections in France is dismantling the EU.
A possible Polegzit or dismantling of the EU is massively rejected by Poles, since in the latest survey published today by Žečpospolita, even 78 percent declared for Poland to remain in the EU, while 12 percent of those addressed in the IRBIS survey would support leaving.
That they could find an ally in the French nationalists and want to destroy the EU, the head of Polish diplomacy Witold Waszczykowski and his deputy in charge of European affairs, Konrad Szymanjski, refused today.
"I spoke with Marine Le Pen in January. We don't have a common path," Waszczykowski said, and today he softened his threat that Poland will play tough and block the EU because the other 27 members, despite strong opposition from Poland, chose last week on for another two and a half years, Kaczynski's angry political and personal opponent, former Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, headed the European Council.
Waszczykowski denied that Poland would now block various decisions of other members and veto them as revenge.
"We have been surprised by many situations. I have been saying for years that the EU is not a club of altruists, but we believed that it is an institution that is guided by principles and tries not to humiliate member states," Vasčikovsky said.
Waszczykowski compared the re-election of Tusk, in which Poland was left alone, without anyone to support it, even without its closest allies such as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, to a match in which Warsaw was invited to play fine European football, and it turned out to be rugby.
"This is how various other countries play, especially against us, for example in the matter of climate or energy policy. We have to join such a game and stop being altruistic," Waszczykovski told the state-run Polish Radio today.
Waszczykovski rejected the claim that Poland is doomed to defeat in such a tough game, because under the rule of the Pravo i Pravda party, there are no allies in Europe, and there are few areas where one country can block with a veto.
"Much depends on the consensus and we can play there because we are a big country," Vasčikovsky said.
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