Ziobra’s “Charge” to Brussels. He threatened the EU with a freezing of payments, the government spokesman denies. “Private opinion”

Piotr Müller, government spokesman, commented on the interview given by the Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro to the Financial Times. – If this dispute intensifies, I will demand that Poland suspend payments to the EU. It would be justified, because the EU is unlawfully denying us funds from the common budget, to which we are also contributing – said the leader of Solidarna Polska. – We will never agree for Poland to have the status of a colony – he added.

Ziobro “threatens” the EU, government spokesman with “private opinion”

In the program “Polityczne Graffiti” on Polsat News, Müller emphasized that Zbigniew Ziobro did not express the government’s position. – It’s a private opinion. Poland is a net beneficiary of EU funds when it comes to the budget itself, so we receive more money than we pay – he concluded.

He also added that “the freezing of the Polish membership fee does not particularly help in resolving the dispute with the European Commission.”

Politicians comment: Ziobro continues to charge Brussels

The words of Zbigniew Ziobro were widely echoed both in Poland and abroad. “Minister Ziobro draws his saber and continues his charge on Brussels. He threatens to suspend Poland’s contributions to the EU budget and veto EU policies if Brussels continues to insist on the rule of law in our country. Foreign investors will be pleased” – commented former MEP and former head of the Ministry of Science Lena Kolarska -Bobińska. “It unanimously adopted the Lisbon Treaty, negotiated by the government of Jarosław Kaczyñski and ratified by President Lech Kaczyński. There is nothing in it about anyone’s dictatorship, but about the observance of the rule of law,” Radosław Sikorski wrote in his remark.

Ziobro’s statement did not escape foreign press agencies. “The Polish minister is threatening the EU with a veto”, he writes. writes in turn that Poland “has thwarted its chances for EU billions.” The reason was supposed to be a “militant stance” demonstrated by Zbigniew, who handed Didier Reynders, the EU Commissioner for Justice, photos of bombed-out Warsaw. As Reuters reported on Sunday, one of the members of Didier Reynders’ delegation was to judge that the EU commissioner was “brutally treated” in Warsaw, and Reynders himself was to be “evidently shocked” by the attitude of the Polish government.