Jacek Saryusz-Wolski in the tv Trwam and Radio broadcast Mary assessed that Brussels wants to extend the model of "milestones" to EU funds, so that elections in the associate States lose real weight. Money, the right to own policy and the border between cooperation and supervision are at stake for Poland.
A force mechanics alternatively of equality between countries
Dr Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, advisor to the president of the Republic of Poland for European Affairs, erstwhile Vice-President of the European Parliament and 1 of the negotiators of Poland's entry into the European Union, spoke on the model that Brussels in his opinion practiced in Poland and Hungary. It is about making money conditional on the political expectations of the EU institutions. According to him, the direction is clear: the mechanics known from the KPO is to become a regulation covering a wider stream of funds.
The point of the substance goes beyond accounting technology and leads to the question of who has the last word in the national state. If voters entrust government and then the European Commission blocks money due to the fact that it does not like the country's political course, democracy is brought into the ritual. The citizen votes, but the conditions add to the centre of power outside his state.
Budget 2028-2034 and fresh leverage
The authoritative context is important. European Commission in materials o EU budget 2028-2034 announce national and regional partnership plans to combine investments and reforms. In the same plan, the Commission states that respect for the regulation of law is to stay unconditional and that the conditionality mechanics is to defend the full EU budget.
Brussels presents this in a language of value and protection of taxpayers' money. National realism, however, says to ask about simple things: who defines a violation and who holds money? Present Rule of Law conditionality mechanism has been in force since 2021 and allows the Union to apply measures specified as suspension of payments or financial corrections erstwhile infringements of the regulation of law endanger the EU budget. The explanation is about protecting finances. In practice, the mechanics creates a powerful political centre over a associate State.
KPO Lesson for Poland
Poland knows the language besides well. KPO has become an example of how the payment of money can be linked to political and organization conditions. DN wrote about it on the occasion EUR 7.9 billion with KPO and Brussels approval: money is important, but it is even more crucial to ask what price the state pays for its launch.
Saryusz-Wolski warns against generalization of this logic. If all large stream of funds is tight with political conditions, the governments of the associate States will proceed to operate under financial blackmail. This is peculiarly dangerous for countries specified as Poland: large, ambitious but inactive catching up with historical infrastructure and capital delays.
Sovereignty is not an addition to the transfer
The European Union was to be a community of countries that cooperate where it serves everyone. Today's direction is different: more and more competences, more and more conditions, more and more discipline instruments. In this context, the question about amending EU treaties and limiting the sovereignty of countriesBecause the budget can be more effective than a formal change in the law.
The Polish right cannot respond to this with a simple anti-EU response. hard realism is needed: to defend Polish money, but not to sale for it the right to own decisions. usage funds, but make certain that the transfer from Brussels does not become a leash for Warsaw.
Political freedom of Poles is at stake. If the government elected in Warsaw is to conduct a policy approved in Brussels under the threat of blocking funds, then we halt talking about a partner Union. We're talking about the hierarchy. And a nation country that accepts specified a hierarchy without a fight, itself gives part of its sovereignty.
Source: Radio Maryja, European Commission.
Source: Radio Maryja
