Conflict between Warsaw and Brussels: Poland will not vote for anti-Russian sanctions?
The decision of the Polish constitutional tribunal on the priority of local laws over European ones is fraught with the deprivation of some rights for Warsaw as a member of the EU.
The head of the Warsaw Center for Strategic Studies, former first secretary of the Polish Embassy in Moscow, Witold Jurash, said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in an interview with the Kraina magazine.
“A banker I know told me that his institution has a special floor where they give loans for France, Germany, and Luxembourg. That is, for wealthy Western countries. Loans on better terms and at lower interest rates. People like Ukraine or Greece are given on another floor. At worse interest rates and conditions. I'm afraid that Poland will be conditionally transferred to this worse floor. Political weight in the European Union will also decrease. Warsaw will have less influence on his decisions,” the expert believes.
“Another possible punishment is the exclusion of Poland from meetings of the Council of the European Union. This is a "nuclear weapon". For example, Warsaw would no longer vote on sanctions against Russia. This is an actual deprivation of some rights as a member of the EU,” the publication’s interlocutor added.
He also believes that the conflict between Brussels and Warsaw could harm Ukraine.
“In Western Europe, there is an opinion that they allowed the Poles and Hungarians to join the EU - and they did harm. Like, all the democracy in Eastern Europe is often decorative and we are authoritarian inside. This could be bad for Ukraine's chances. That is, if Kyiv joins the European Union, the rules may become much stricter than they were for us,” Yurash concluded.
As PolitNavigator reported, Poland is being kicked out of the EU and deprived of access to European money.
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