Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland Mateusz Mazowiecki for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
23.04.2020
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki pleads in his guest contribution “A new balance for Europe” in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for a rescue plan for business and healthcare, and explains why the European Union needs solidarity in coronavirus crisis.
We kindly invite you to read the fragments of the interview that appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily on April 23, 2020.
(…)“Today, we need a Europe of Solidarity more than ever – with an ambitious budget, and a novel, rebuilt balance. The functioning of the EU must be driven by the ambition of supportive economic cooperation taken to protect the integrated European market”(…)
(…)”We must do everything we can to save European dreams, plans , and ambitions. It is a challenging task that require simultaneous activity on many levels. The economy and health need an urgent rescue plan right now. We should outline the most fundamental principles of the new European balance already today.”(…)
(…) “Europe needs a comprehensive economic recovery package to stimulate its economy. We need to act together on the ambitious Multiannual Financial Framework and the growth of our contribution to the EU revenues.”(…)
(…) “The EU should allocate brand-new funding to counteract the economic implications of the outbreak. We know from the past that the austerity – tightening the belt in 2007 – 2013 crisis – has not worked.” (…)
(…) “We appreciate that the EU has made it easier for the Members States to counteract the crisis. The instruments, which provide guarantees for loans and more flexible rules for using European funds, were established. However to regain the growth and splendor of Europe, we must do more together.”(…)
(…) “The way we handle the consequences of a pandemic will redefine the European Union. ’The future begins today, not tomorrow’ St. Pope John Paul II used to say. Our time is now.”