“If the European Union is a fish, then the head is already badly damaged, and that applies to the entire European elite, and especially to Western Europe and its helpers from Central and Eastern Europe,” said Prof. Ryszard Legutko, PiS MEP.
“They’re going backwards”
The Brussels police entered the office of the European People’s Party, chaired until recently by Donald Tusk. The services seized computers “related to financial fraud allegedly involving EPP employees” and the investigation goes back 15 years.
How can one comment on this situation and the fact that it is the representatives of the EPP and the already discredited socialists who are so eager to attack Poland, eg on the rule of law? We put this question to Prof. Ryszard Legutka.
If the European Union is a fish, its head is already badly damaged, and that applies to the entire European elite, especially Western Europe and its Central and Eastern European helpers. We have had scandals with the socialists, with the Greens, and the latest corruption scandals with the socialists.
says our interlocutor.
And even the European People’s Party sends such signals: it is the socialists who are corrupt, not us. So it turns out that the most powerful political group in the European Union and the police do not go into some annex or branch, but go into the main building, where the leadership of the European People’s Party
he adds.
At the head of this party is precisely Manfred Weber, also chairman of the parliamentary group, and he is mainly politically charged. Tusk once also led this party. He was in charge like he was in charge, obviously he was in charge, but he certainly had some responsibility and we’ll see what happens next.
– emphasizes Prof. Legutko.
As I know life, they will go into denial, find a scapegoat and say everything is fine. And after all, this is the elite of the elite when it comes to the EU, because in the EPP we have both the previous chair of the committee, and the current chair, Ms Ursula von der Leyen, and the President of the EP, Ms Roberta Metsola, and in general many positions in the EU are these people. The problem with them is that the whole institutional system is poorly constructed. One political faction rules, so there is no real control or selection. It’s all a closed system and therefore sick
he adds.
“Mr Manfred Weber needs to stop his arrogance.”
Will the current situation make EU politicians find some humility in themselves?
Mr. Manfred Weber should back off now, give himself a break with this arrogance in attacking Poland. As befits a German politician, and like almost every German politician, Mr. Weber tends to preach from a position of moral superiority, but it certainly won’t have any special effect until the election. They are still strong and therefore they can afford it. Although they are partly responsible for the energy crisis through a fatal and long-lasting flirtation with Russia, dependence on Russian energy – so what? Rather than accept the consequences, Scholz calls for German leadership in the European Union. This is insolence
– indicates the PiS MEP.
However, it is difficult to expect that scandals among the EU elites will lead to a certain purge.
If voters don’t make hard decisions in future elections, we’ll get more of the same – they’ll execute one or the other and say they’ve cleaned themselves up and will be at the forefront of the fight for purity and the fight against corruption in Europe. These are my predictions, let me be wrong and let the Europeans learn from them and steer them where they need to be in the next elections
– evaluates Prof. Legutko.
Who is the “sick man of Europe”?
Isn’t it a bit like Europeans are already getting a little tired of it?
There are some shifts, but let’s not forget that we are talking about a political, European group, and some of these European right-wing parties also belong to the EPP. So they still have a strong position, but it is a completely ideological party, like PO, totally devoid of any ideological program. Some say conservative, others say Christian. Well, there are a few Christian Democrats there, but the Christian Democrats generally don’t exist anymore. And since they’re running this leftist program, these greens, rainbows, and all this madness, it’s possible those lefties won’t put much pressure on them, because it’s an ally. It just shows how sick the system is. If there was a viable alternative, it would be healthier. Meanwhile he is sick, the Union is the sick man of Europe
– answer Prof. Richard Legutko.
So far we have heard this expression quite often in relation to Poland, but now we seem to show it differently, for example by helping Ukraine.
It was obviously an insult, because since they have no opposition, any government that pulls away from this private attack is immediately an example of attacks, pressure, insults and also retaliation, just like all that money stuff in recent years. This is a kind of political and legal hooliganism, but it is also a symptom that this system is sick. It is unable to create mechanisms that accept political diversity. There is no such differentiation in the EU, there is only one correct orientation, where exactly the Greens, Socialists, Liberals and EPP fit. They may differ on some details, but when it comes to exercising power, they oppose and support each other
concludes our interlocutor.
note Joanna Jaszczuk
Source: wPolityce