In the past dozen hours, two statements by opposition politicians have appeared, which give the impression of a serious reflection on the most important issues for Poland.
Here leader of the Polish People’s Party, which in the recent past attacked PiS for its alleged pursuit of Polexit (in fact, it was about defending Poland’s position in the EU), painted a black scenario for the future of the community. As reported on the wPolityce.pl portal, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz stated:
I am a radical because I am a huge euro enthusiast. Poland’s place is in the European Union, that the European Union I want to see is a zone of security and development. But if she continues to follow orders, prohibitions and commands, and not to positive solutions, support this direction is tragic. The European Union can lose its value, it can become completely invisible.
The leader of the People’s Party drew attention to the issue of promoting electric cars:
No madness. If an electric car is more economical and cheaper, people will buy it. If photovoltaic solar energy will be profitable, then people in Poland would settle en masse. But let’s not introduce rules that scare people off. According to the leader of the PSL, it is necessary to change the philosophy of how the European Union functions.
If the EU does not change its philosophy, it will not abandon nonsense proposals: restrictions on agricultural production, an absolute ban on the production and sale of internal combustion engines… The EU drifts towards building anti-EU movements and crashes and disintegrates
– said Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
This is basically a diagnostic, purely PiS, though embellished with assurances of deep loyalty to the European idea. In fact, even without major changes, it could be said today by a politician from the ruling party. And that’s why this is an important moment. The centralist and ideological tendencies of the EU elites have gone so far that it is no longer possible to pretend that this is the same Union we joined. It can no longer be argued that the tensions in relations with Brussels are solely the fault of Warsaw. No, this is an objective phenomenon, the result of the processes taking place in the EU, and not of some foolish anesthesia of the ruling camp in Poland.
The second statement is equally important. Here Bartholomew Sienkiewiczan important politician of the Civic Coalition, reacted sharply to the statement of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who announced that “78 years ago Germany and the world were liberated from the tyranny of National Socialism”.
Chancellor Scholz’s text on the “liberation of Germany” by the Allies implies that the Chancellor puts the liberation of concentration camp prisoners on an equal footing with the Germans who supported Hitler until the last moment of the war. This is a historical lie and an ethical foundation. There will be problems with such elites –
says Sienkiewicz. And this statement is also important. Because it seems the opposition is beginning to notice disturbing processes taking place in Germany in terms of historical awareness and approach to the past. Sienkiewicz is right: there will be problems with such elites. They already are, but until now the opposition believed that the tensions between Berlin and Warsaw were solely the fault of the PiS team. Today she sees that Germany, to which she clung so tightly, is different from what she imagined.
We are entering an interesting period. There is hope that the opposition will slowly emerge from the “mental channels”.which she has adhered to for decades. For now the points, but the first steps are already behind us. It remains to wait for reflection in other areas, such as the state of our democracy, the need to reform the judiciary, the rightness of large investments, the need to implement broad social policies. The two statements quoted above prove that reality cannot be ignored forever. If this process continues, be maybe there is hope for the end of the “Polish-Polish Cold War”.
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Source: wPolityce