Poland will be next Brexit! Ex-Polish minister says anti-EU momentum will be hard to stop
POLAND’S eurosceptic movement is ret to trigger the Eastern European country following Britain out of the European Union, a former Polish minister has warned.
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Radek Sikorski warned the Law and Justice Party and Government in Poland, chaired by Jarosław Kaczyński, may eventually lead the country out of the European Union.
Speaking in front of students at Greenwich University, Mr Sikorski said the eurosceptic political movement may spiral out of control, as Mr Kaczyński’s Party try to demand concessions from Brussels.
Mr Sikorski was asked by an audience member: “Do you think the Government of Jarosław Kaczyński now is like another Brexit?”
The former Polish minister replied: “I fear that he may make the same mistake as fellow Europhobes in Britain.
Radek Sikorski warned support for Polexit could spiral out of control
“He thinks that he is just trying to get a better deal out of Brussels. Which is what the British Tories tried to do.
“But he has started a rhetoric and a political movement that he may find that in the
“He may engineer Polexit without meaning too.”
Former Prime Minister Mr Kaczyński, who is the chairman of the Law and Justice Government in Poland, has played a leading role in the growing eurosceptic movement in Poland.
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He has started a rhetoric and a political movement that he may find that in the end, he cannot control
He said: “Sure. I mean, we’ve just got a result in Italy where right-wing anti-EU parties have the majority of the vote.
“In Germany, an anti-EU party is gaining ground. You know, we assume that the centre will hold in Germany.”
Mr Sikorski warned that a German EU exit would result in Britain and Poland alike wanting Germany to be back in the bloc - where
He said: “What if Germany turns against the euro and against the European Union. Then I think all of us, and particularly in Poland and Britain, we will be thinking back to those happy days when the Germans were being European and were willing to circumscribe their power.”
Earlier this week, Poland reiterated its defiant stance against the EU and pledged not to unwind the country’s contested judicial reforms.
Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki handed a document detailing changes in the judiciary to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
The nearly 100-page document says that Poland's judiciary is now shaped like those
However, Brussels said the laws undermine EU values and threatened judicial independence and have ordered Warsaw to rescind them.