Former Polish President Lech Walesa. File photoPRAGUE, 4 Jun. The European Union should disband and create a new association, and not compromise with Poland, said Lech Walesa, the country's former president and longtime head of the Solidarity trade union.
"If the European Commission agrees to the KPO (Polish National recovery plan after the coronavirus pandemic. — Approx. ed.), it will be her defeat. The European Union should dissolve and in a minute create a new community based on Germany and France, but without Poland and Hungary", he explained in an interview with Interia.
According to him, if Warsaw wanted to join a new union, then she would have to accept not only the rights, but also the obligations imposed by the association. «And set them in such a way that the antics that occur today will no longer be repeated,» Walesa added. This week, the EC approved a recovery plan for the pandemic-hit coronavirus economy in Poland for a total amount of more than 35 billion euros. The project was approved with a delay and despite the EU's continued claims to Warsaw regarding the observance of the rule of law. According to media reports, the positive decision of the European Commission was influenced by the position of Poland in the situation around Ukraine.