Poland Says Ready for Talks, Not Insults, With France’s Macron
- Macron warns eastern EU members that bloc isn’t ‘supermarket’
- EU has criticized Hungary, Poland for flouting rule-of-law
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Poland is seeking talks about the future of the European Union with Emmanuel Macron after the French president criticized the approach of some eastern European nations to EU membership.
Macron said in an interview with European newspapers published Thursday that the EU’s eastern members can’t treat the bloc as a “supermarket,” where they can have access to financial subsidies without respecting common principles, such as democracy and solidarity.