WARSAW, Jan 5 The European Union was not created for German hegemony, Piotr Muller, spokesman for the Polish government, said.
Poland reacted extremely critically to the statement of German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock, who said on Wednesday that the European Union cannot afford to block decisions by individual member states. In her opinion, «qualified majority voting can lead to fairer results for all of us.»
«There will be absolutely no consent from the Polish government to discuss changes of this type in the EU treaties. The fact that there are safeguards in EU law that allow member states to block decisions that are disadvantageous to this state is an element of security , the sovereignty of every country in the European Union,» Muller said at a press conference.
«I know that from time to time countries such as, in fact, Germany, count on the fact that they can play the role of hegemon of the European Union, but the European project is not designed in this way and in any case should not be designed in such a way that one or two states can impose decisions on other member countries on key issues related to security or issues related to prosperity,» he added.
According to Muller, it is precisely because of such behavior of some EU countries that the UK left this organization. «We consider such statements to be harmful, we believe that statements of this type are one of the elements that create anti-European sentiments in some countries, and the best example, unfortunately, is the UK's exit from the European Union. In fact, because of statements of this type British citizens have decided that they no longer want to be members of the European project,» he said.