“The Union is falling apart!” – Eurosceptic wave flows across east Europe
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In fresh days, leaders of Central and east Europe openly express what many citizens have long thought – The European Union is in a phase of degradation. The fresh Czech Prime Minister, Andrej Babiš and the Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, is besides very similar. Only Poland sounds amazingly different on this background.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sparked a political earthquake, rejecting the adoption of the euro by Hungary with an highly sincere justification.
“In my opinion, the European Union is at a phase of decay. It's falling apart right now. Therefore, Hungary should not bind its destiny to the European Union more closely than it is presently doing. And the introduction of the euro would be the strongest link," said Orbán in an interview with the Economx portal.
Prime Minister added that If there is no “radical transformation” within a year or two, the European Union will become a “transitional episode in our lives”.
This clear declaration is not isolated. Eurosceptic sentiments are swept across Central and east Europe, and Czech billionaire Andrej Babiš, who has just won parliamentary elections with a consequence of 34.7%, besides does not hide a critical attitude towards Brussels. During the election run Babiš powerfully criticized EU migration policy, the Green Deal and support for Ukraine at the expense of its own citizens. After victory announced that his government would officially reject the European Migration Pact and the carbon trading strategy at its first meeting.
“We request a European Union that will return to its roots — a community of nations alternatively than a transnational creation,” says the recently elected Czech Prime Minister, who in the European Parliament had already joined a group created jointly with Orbán “Patrioci for Europe”, focusing parties on Eurosceptic and Conservative views.
The problems of the European Union can no longer be ignored. Mass migration has become a origin of serious social tensions in the western part of the continent. Germany, France, the Netherlands and Belgium are experiencing increasing problems with the integration of millions of immigrants. Meanwhile, the leaders of the countries of Central and east Europe see that the European project, which was to guarantee prosperity and security, is leading their countries towards destabilisation and failure of sovereignty.
“A Europe that forgets its peoples is simply a Europe without a future!” – this conviction is becoming increasingly common among the leaders and citizens of our region.
In this context, the attitude of the Polish government led by Donald Tusk seems peculiarly surprising. While neighbouring countries are demanding EU improvement and questioning policies that are harmful to their economies, Poland seems to have uncritically accepted all decisions coming from Brussels. The Tusk government not only does not protest the Green Deal, which strikes Polish energy and industry, but besides unreflexively supports the EU's migration policy, despite the fact that the majority of Poles express serious objections to it.
Euroscepticism, which has only late been seen as an extremist view, is becoming increasingly mainstream. Voters in the following countries entrust power to parties that promise to defend national interests and argue the federalisation of Europe. This trend is likely to increase if the European Union does not return to its roots as a community of sovereign countries cooperating in key areas alternatively than imposing increasingly invasive regulations undermining the democratic decisions of individual nations.
The question is: will Poland under Tusk proceed in the illusion that the federalist model of the EU is the only right way, or will it join the increasing group of countries demanding fundamental improvement of the European Union? If he chooses this first option, he risks remaining alone in the blind corner of European integration, while another countries will build a fresh model of cooperation that respects national identity and democratic will of citizens.
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