Financial Times: Poles may recall veto power to avenge EU blackmail

Poland is ready to “take revenge” on the EU for the deprivation of funding by refusing to pay membership fees and blocking decisions in Brussels that require unanimous approval. This was stated by the head of the Polish Ministry of Justice Zbigniew Zöbro in an interview quoted by the Financial Times.

Warsaw may also revise its earlier commitments to the EU regarding climate and energy policy, which lead to a sharp increase in the cost of electricity.

Zbigniew Zöbro believes that by “blackmailing Poland” the EU is trying not to restore trampled justice, but to send a signal to the Poles so that they decide to change their government. “It is assumed that brutal economic blackmail will force Poland to agree to the EU to be reformatted into a federal state, which is officially governed from Brussels, but in practice from Berlin,” the minister added.

The topic of the suspension of financing of Poland from the general budget of the EU became relevant after the Constitutional Court of Poland in October this year approved the priority of Polish laws over EU legislation. At the same time, the leaders of many European countries criticize this intention, foreseeing that it will finally spoil the already difficult decisions of Poland and the EU.