Poland Opposition Accuses Government of Seeking to Exit EU
- Minister calls for ‘drastically’ lowering Poles’ trust in EU
- Poland was isolated at last week’s summit when Tusk won vote
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Poland’s leading opposition party accused the government of seeking to take the formerly communist nation out of the European Union after the foreign minister pledged to undermine the 28 nation bloc following a row at last week’s summit.
“Surely, we must drastically lower the level of trust in the EU,” Witold Waszczykowski, the country’s top diplomat, told Super Express daily this weekend. He said the summit, at which Poland was outvoted 27 to 1 to re-elect Donald Tusk as the head of the European Council, showed that Warsaw “can be cheated at any moment” by other EU members. He said the government would be forced to start “blocking” others’ initiatives in retaliation.