Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki for "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung"
26.05.2020
The Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland Mr. Mateusz Morawiecki gave an interview on 26 May 2020 to the German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, in which the issues of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy and cooperation in the EU, the topic of presidential elections and matters concerning reform of the justice system in Poland were discussed. We kindly invite you to read the fragments of the interview.
(…)”The EU’s response must be firm and give a genuine lever of development for our region. In the era of dramatic changes in the global economy, it must be engine of investment in infrastructure, innovation and human resources. We cannot lag behind at the very beginning of this new global competition”. (…)
(…) “A division is what we should avoid right now. (…) There is no better and worse Europe. There is one Europe that needs solidarity and cooperation – this is the only way it can get out of this crisis stronger. The fact that Poland and the Visegrad Group countries have been developing the most dynamically in recent years means that we can bring more strength and freshness to the European community in this difficult time.” (…)
(…) “The fiscal and monetary response of Central and Eastern European countries was possible due to well-pursued policies in recent years. The Financial Shield, one of the two implemented instruments, has already been applied in 170,000 companies employing around 1.7 million people.” (…)
(…) “While following similar legal processes in other countries, I have not noticed that the nomination to the new President of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic for Petr Angyalossy, or for the appointment of a former CDU politician Stephan Harbarth for the President of the Constitutional Court, has been widely commented or criticized by the European Commission. Poland is always open to dialogue and actively participates in it. However the discussions must be conducted in a spirit of understanding and respect for law and historical conditions”. (…)