WARSAW (Realist English). The European Union needs a deep reform that would return the common good and equality to the forefront in the principles of the EU, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki believes.
He believes that the European Union is facing growing drawbacks in what concerns observance of freedom and equality of all members.
“The fact that Poland’s voice has been ignored is an example of the broader problem that the EU is struggling with. Each country is meant to be equal, but political practice has shown that the voices of Germany and France counts above all else. As a result, we are dealing with a formal democracy and a de facto oligarchy, where power is held by the strongest,” he wrote this in The Spectator‘s author’s column.
Morawiecki stresses that the principle of unanimity protects the EU “from the tyranny of the majority.”
“Seeking compromise among 27 countries whose interests are so often in conflict can sometimes be frustrating. The compromise may not satisfy everyone fully. However, it guarantees that every voice will be heard and the solution adopted will meet the minimum expectations of each member state,” he explained.
According to the Polish politician, Europe is in the position in which it found itself not because it was insufficiently integrated, but because it “refused to listen to the voice of truth. That voice has been coming from Poland for many years”:
“Yet the return of Russian imperialism should come as no surprise. Russia had been rebuilding its position slowly for almost two decades, right under the nose of the West. Instead of maintaining reasonable vigilance, the West responded by going into a geopolitical slumber. It preferred not to see the problem rather than face it in advance.”
