Rafał Trzaskowski besides pointed out that Ukraine's place is in the European Union and NATO, although there are conditions here. “If they want to join the EU, they will gotta adapt to even agricultural policy. The common denominator is 1 — Ukraine's membership of the European Union has to pay off for us, he said.
The president of Warsaw defined the situation of the first wave of aid for Ukraine as a “special regime”. “Today we inactive gotta aid Ukraine. But we cannot make the same mistake that another Western countries erstwhile made, like Germany or Sweden. That it was worth it to come there only for social services," said Trzaskowski. He added that anyone who wants to come to us "must strengthen our economy".
“It must be worth it for us”
In his opinion, further assistance for Ukrainians surviving in Poland is necessary, but only on certain conditions. He proposed, as he himself said, a "fundamental change". “ Benefits specified as 800 plus should belong to Ukrainians, but only if Ukrainians work, live and pay taxes in Poland,” he stressed.
— If we want to proceed to have this tremendous support for Ukraine, we must make common sense changes in our policy,” said Trzaskowski. “A immense number of Ukrainians work in Poland and contribute to our increasing economy. We cannot duplicate the mistakes of another countries, we gotta set a policy that will pay us,” he said.
