The leaders of ten European Union (EU) member states, including Fidesz and the Polish Law and Justice (PiS), signed a joint declaration on the future of Europe on Friday in their capitals, in which they support the idea of the EU, but reject the European superstate, Jaroslaw Kaczynski said. , the president of PiS in Warsaw.
The document was drawn up because the conference on the future of Europe had started, Kaczynski said, adding that "its goals and structures are not clear".
"It can be assumed that we are talking about the deepening of processes that do not serve the development of the EU, but cause a deep, lasting crisis, phenomena that have nothing to do with the thinking of the founding fathers and the practice of the first years of the community, leading to a super-state, centralization, cultural revolution , which aims to destroy the existing social structures," said Kaczynski.
"We don't want such revolutions," he declared, drawing a parallel between the current trends in the EU and "ideas known from European and world history" was only "a lot of trouble and a radical restriction of freedom"
The initiative set out in the joint declaration means support for all those who want to preserve the European tradition, the European nations, their diversity and richness, and who want to continue the previous cooperation, to preserve free movement, economic freedom, but also individual freedoms and rights, also the right of democracy
– the president of PiS justified the joint action.
In addition to Fidesz and PiS, more than ten coalitions signed the statement, including the two Italian parties, the League led by Matteo Salvini and the Italian Brothers (FdI) led by Giorgia Meloni, as well as the Spanish Vox led by Santiago Abascal and the French Marine Le Pen National Collapse, Kaczynski said.
PiS is a member of the European Conservatives and Reformers (ECR) group in the European Parliament. According to the ECR's statement on Friday, in addition to the parties mentioned by Kaczynski, the document was signed by several center-right parties from Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, the Netherlands, Lithuania and Romania.
Fidesz joined the appeal of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the president of the Polish PiS, about the future of Europe
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, president of Fidesz, said in a video uploaded to the party's Facebook page on Friday.
He said: a few months ago, the French president launched a pan-European debate on the future of the European Union (EU). At the end of long weeks and months of preparatory work, on Friday, the chairman of the largest Polish ruling party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, signed a declaration and called on the like-minded parties of Europe to join him.
This declaration is about the future of the EU, the protection of nations, families and traditional Christian values, emphasized the president of Fidesz.
According to the ECR, the signatories warn that trust in the EU is decreasing among the population of the member states, which they say is a consequence of the "reinterpretation" of the content of the basic EU treaties.
In order to reverse the trend, in addition to the already existing EU basic principle of the transfer of powers, a list of the inviolable powers of the member states must be drawn up, as well as an appropriate mechanism for their protection, with the involvement of the national constitutional courts, must be created, the announcement states.
As they write, attempts to place EU bodies above national constitutional institutions create chaos. This undermines the meaning of the basic treaties and casts doubt on the fundamental role of the constitutions of the member states, the statement continues.
In the end, disputes over jurisdiction that arise are resolved in such a way that "the politically stronger units brutally impose their will on the weaker units," the quote continues. "This destroys the foundations of the operation of the European community, conceived as a community of free nations," they add.
Stopping negative demographic trends is identified as an important challenge in the declaration, and the family is called the basic cell of nations.
The ECR announced: as a continuation of the initiative, the parties that signed the declaration will organize a program conference in Warsaw in September.
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Photo: illustration - Source: Facebook page of the Polish Law and Justice Party (PiS).
