“Germany does not want to pay for aid to Ukraine, and at the same time they want to force European countries – including Poland – to buy military equipment from them,” Beata Szydło, MEP for Law and Justice and former Prime Minister, wrote on the X platform, citing information from the Financial Times”. “German insolence goes beyond scale,” the politician concluded.
Germany is blocking a new tranche of EU military aid to Ukraine and demanding that the cost of weapons it has already sent to Ukraine be deducted from its contribution, the Financial Times reports.
– PiS member Beata Szydło writes on the X platform.
The former Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland explains that it is a special fund – the European Peace Facility, which is used to finance the Ukrainian army by the EU and to compensate the countries that send weapons to the embattled Ukraine for their losses.
The Germans feel that they have not received enough money back, so they want to ‘deduct’ it. What should Poland say, which sent equipment worth billions and received only partial compensation?
– asks Beata Szydło.
“What a coincidence”
Later in his contribution, the MEP shares more interesting information he read in the Financial Times.
But that is not everything. According to the Financial Times, Germans and French are outraged that EU countries do not want to buy their military equipment
– Szydło points out.
As we read further, Berlin and Paris are therefore “demanding Brussels to order joint and top-down purchases of equipment by EU countries – German and French equipment, of course.”
Moreover, an identical postulate has been included in the planned amendments to the European Treaties. What a coincidence
– says the former Prime Minister ironically.
Germany does not want to pay for aid to Ukraine, and at the same time they want to force European countries – including Poland – to buy military equipment from them. The German brashness is off the charts
– summarizes MEP Beata Szydło.
And all this does not stop Germany from continuing to position itself as the ‘leader’ of European aid to Ukraine, even if it was only after pressure from the governments of other EU countries, led by the then Polish authorities, that the actions of our Western neighbor actually began to look like support, rather than waiting for its collapse.
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Source: wPolityce