The European Union is increasingly resembling the declining ancient Roman Empire, where infections ravaged, migration ran rampant, defense was neglected and bureaucracy took over. If we want to make Europe a functioning home again, prosperity, rapid GDP growth, and the strengthening of defense policy must be prioritized instead of huge sums spent on climate policy. - said Mateusz Morawiecki on Friday in Budapest at the CPAC Hungary conference.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the president of Fidesz, called former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki his old comrade-in-arms when he received him at the Carmelite Monastery on Friday.

Viktor Orbán - just like at the CPAC event in Budapest on Thursday - recalled: Hungarians and Poles fought together in Brussels for sovereignty, stopping migration, and protecting families and children.

    In the future, the Poles and Hungarians will continue to stand up for what is important to them and what the left wants to abolish, and they will resist what they want to impose on us - explained the two leaders

Bertalan Havasi, the prime minister's press chief, told MTI.

The EU evokes the declining Roman Empire

The European Union is increasingly resembling the declining ancient Roman Empire, where infections ravaged, migration raged, defense was not taken care of and the bureaucracy took over, Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday at the CPAC Hungary conference in Budapest.

The former Polish Prime Minister emphasized: although this is a difficult choice,

if we want to make Europe a functioning home again, prosperity, rapid GDP growth, and the strengthening of defense policy must be prioritized instead of huge sums spent on climate policy.

"We choose to grow, but we don't reject our roots. I am not against climate policy measures, but we cannot sacrifice our lifestyle and our Christian values ​​on the altar of climate protection either, the expenses for this cannot be disproportionately high. I would like Europe to industrialize again, to become a powerful factory again," he explained. According to him, if the industry in the EU were to decline, the chances of remaining competitive would decrease, because most of the industry would move to Russia, India, China, and the United States.

    "We must become the home of the future, a community of ambitious nations. In times of uncertainty, a stabilizing force is needed, which can be a very strong alliance of nation-states"

he noted.

He added: under the leadership of liberal and European governments, European institutions would centralize political power in Brussels, which would be a very dangerous process.

"I believe that conservatism is such a positive and modernizing force, a concept that applies to the future, but at the same time traditions and Christian values ​​are important to it. In a world of crises, we have to redefine conservatism," said Mateusz Morawiecki.

He said that the amount aimed at reversing climate change could range from EUR 500 billion to EUR 1,000 billion annually in Europe based on the current green agreement. In terms of security and defense policy spending, 350-400 billion euros would have to be spent annually in NATO in order to reach the spending level of the United States. And we in Europe agree that increasing defense spending is critical for the peace of the continent," explained Mateusz Morawiecki.

He called it a good decision that the US Congress approved the aid to Ukraine and Israel, but at the same time, according to him, attention should be paid to the fact that the United States is also looking towards China and the Pacific region.

He believed that, after 2015, the left-wing liberal forces are once again trying to disrupt the peace and stability of Europe with huge migration masses.

Mateusz Morawiecki also touched on the fact that while the conservative forces' meeting in Brussels the other day was apostrophized as a pro-Russian meeting on the left and liberal side, as Polish Prime Minister, more than two years earlier, when the Russian-Uranian war broke out, together with his Czech and Slovenian colleagues, he was the first of the world leaders to go to Kiev and assured Ukraine of their support.

MTI

Cover photo: In the photo published by the Prime Minister's Press Office, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the president of Fidesz (j) welcomes former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in the Carmelite Monastery on April 26, 2024.
MTI/Prime Minister's Press Office/Benko Vivien Cher