Polish MEPs, mainly from the Left and Civic Coalition, want to thwart the construction of a dam on the border with Kaliningrad oblast. A few days ago, the Niezalezna.pl portal reported that Polish MEPs were collecting signatures for a letter against the financing of another border wall with EU funds.
We strongly oppose the use of EU funds to finance border walls. Such measures not only perpetuate divisions and divisions between communities, but also have negative humanitarian and economic consequences. We believe that EU funds should be used to promote an inclusive and collaborative approach that promotes unity and mutual understanding between Member States. Therefore, we respectfully ask that you share the same view and that you are committed to promoting alternative solutions that prioritize cooperation and integration over dividing border walls.
— MEPs write a letter to Ylva Johansson, European Commissioner for Home Affairs.
This letter is signed by Danuta Hübner, Janina Ochojska, Róża Thun, Robert Biedroń, Łukasz Kohut, Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz and Sylwia Spurek. But the signature collection still continues.
This letter is a sign of a dramatic misunderstanding of the interests of Poland and the entire European Union. It is even more surprising that politicians from the left for national politics praise the dam on the border with Belarus, as well as the one that is being built on the border with Russia. So far, the concertina dam has been built on more than half the length of the land border with the Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Federation, which is about 198 km long.
The left was against it at first, but today, after more than a year of war, we believe it is necessary. This border needs to be better secured
– said Marcin Kulasek, Secretary General of the New Left, in an interview with Marcin Wikło, in Kwadrans Polityczne.
Meanwhile, MEPs representing the left oppose further obstacles and the spending of EU funds on them.
And yet other countries also decided to ensure their own security and that of the entire EU in this way. It is worth recalling that Finland has followed in the footsteps of Poland and is also building a dam on the border with Russia. A stretch of 200 kilometers on the Finnish-Russian border, stretching for about 1,300 km, needs to be reinforced. The construction costs of this dam amount to 380 million euros.
Lithuania also built a dam on the border with Belarus. This country is now moving on. As Dziennik Gazeta Prawna reports today, Lithuania is building volunteer border guard units. Any EU citizen will be able to serve in them.
Thanks to the Lithuanian amendment to the state border law, it can be protected by citizens of any EU country. Volunteers are given the right to use violence against migrants. This is a response to the 2021 border crisis artificially created by Russia and Belarus. Authorities in Vilnius fear that, along with the failures on the Ukrainian front, the Kremlin will again look for solutions below the war threshold. of them will create migratory pressure
— we read on the front page of the DGP in the text “Walls in the EU mainstream” by Mateusz Roszak and Zbigniew Parafianowicz.
According to the portal, the EU wants to support the construction of barriers at the borders. Do not let the letter from Polish MEPs thwart these plans. After all, no one today can doubt that the landscape in the EU looks completely different today than it did two years ago, and that ensuring the security of the community rests primarily on the shoulders of the states whose border is the external border of the EU .
It is a pity that the Polish Members do not see this. However, the majority of Poles can see it, who will express their views on the anti-Polish attitude of some Polish MEPs at the polls.
Source: wPolityce