Polish FM worried over French presidential candidate’s vision of EU
PR dla Zagranicy
Victoria Bieniek
17.01.2017 13:36
French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen’s vision for a reformed European Union is not good for Poland, the Polish foreign minister has said.
Marine Le Pen. Photo: Flickr.com/Global Panorama.
Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski met Le Pen, the candidate for France’s far-right National Front party, on Sunday in Paris.
Her party has a strong anti-migration stance and is against any EU quotas for settling migrants in member states.
According to Waszczykowski, the EU is already a “loose union” and Le Pen wants “less solidarity in such a union”.
Le Pen wants to see EU member states maintaining “what she called intelligent cooperation, which would mean a further step away from European solidarity,” Waszczykowski said.
“That would mean, maybe not a return to the law of the jungle, but to significant rivalry in Europe, which we have forgotten about” he added.
Bilateral relations with France suffered after Poland’s governing conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party last October broke off a PLN 13.5 billion (EUR 3 billion) deal, four years in the making, to purchase 50 French-manufactured helicopters for the Polish military.
Opinion polls forecast strong support for Le Pen in the first round of French presidential elections in April but do not predict her victory in a second round in May. (vb)
Source: IAR