V4 sees EU as community of nation states: Polish official
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
07.03.2017 15:28
Visegrad Group countries see the future EU as a strong community based on cooperation between nation states, the Speaker of the Polish lower house of parliament said on Tuesday.
Marek Kuchciński (3L), Stanisław Karczewski (3R), Hungary's Laszlo Kover (2L), Slovakia's Andrej Danko (2R), and the Czech Republic's Jan Hamacek (L) and Milan Stech (R). Photo: PAP/Jacek Turczyk
Marek Kuchciński’s comments came after a meeting in Warsaw of top parliamentary officials from the four Visegrad countries: Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Kuchciński said: "In most cases we have very similar views. We see the future of the EU as a great, strong community, an international organization which is based on cooperation between nation states."
He added: "We talked about the importance of national parliaments... in cooperation with the institutions of the European Union and all parliaments."
Stanisław Karczewski, Speaker of the Polish Senate, said that the meeting’s participants wanted a "stable Visegrad Group to stabilize the situation in the European Union."
Poland’s voice, he argued, would be "amplified by four EU countries".
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Source: PAP