The EU has been relentless against Poland (and Hungary) for refusing to institute open-door immigration policies and accept large numbers of Muslim migrants. And Poland has made no secret of the fact that it intends to continue preserving its cultural heritage. Last year, a report emerged showing that the general consensus in Poland is that many Muslims do not assimilate.
A former Polish parliament speaker and foreign minister told the Wall Street Journal…that Poland favors Christian immigrants over Muslim immigrants due to their respective abilities to assimilate.
“Kaczyński: Poland will not allow itself to be blackmailed by EU,” Poland In News, October 13, 2020:
Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) and Deputy PM has said that EU institutions are trying to strip Poland of its sovereignty by demanding Poland change its culture and values. In an interview with weekly “Gazeta Polska” published this week he also asserted that Poland will defend its identity and freedom and would not be swayed by financial considerations.
The PiS leader was referring to the announcement that the EC would seek to standardize provisions of family law so that same sex couples and their rights to parent children would be recognized across the EU and to the proposals of the European Parliament and the current German presidency of the EU to link payment of EU funds with general rule of law compliance.
Mr Kaczyński said that the EU was proposing an unprecedented assault on Polish sovereignty. He recalled how the USSR’s communist ideology, which was dominant in the Soviet bloc had been resisted by Poland over the existence of private farming and the Catholic Church. This defence of some freedoms and matters of conscience was possible even under a totalitarian regime.
Now the EU’s institutions are, according to the ruling party leader, demanding that Poland should change its culture and values. This demand is “groundless in terms of treaties and contrary to Poland’s declaration of cultural sovereignty which was passed by the Polish Parliament in advance of Poland’s accession to the EU,” he stated. The PiS leader signalled that Poland would not budge over the matter. “We will defend our identity, freedom and sovereignty at any price. We will not succumb to financial blackmail…We will defend Poland’s interests…Veto. Non Possumus will be our answer to any such attempts.”
Mr Kaczyński was here alluding to the recent remarks by the EP’s VP Katarina Barley who said, in the context of both Hungary and Poland, that these countries should be “starved financially” until they comply with the EU’s demands on the rule of law. The comment caused a storm in Poland and calls for Ms Barley to resign or be recalled…..