The Chancellery of the Prime Minister said that Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki met with British head of government Liz Truss in Prague on Thursday. The leaders touched on security, energy, and climate issues.

This was not the only meeting the head of the Polish government held during the Prague summit. Mateusz Morawiecki also talked to the Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store. The conversation concerned the Putin-induced war and the European Union’s misguided climate and energy policy.

The head of the Polish government on Thursday began a two-day visit to the Czech Republic, where he is representing Poland at the European Political Community summit. He is attending an informal EU summit on Friday.

Prior to the start of the plenary session of the European Political Community summit in Prague, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki met with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal. In addition, on the sidelines of the summit, Mateusz Morawiecki met with the President of the European Council Charles Michel, the Prime Ministers of Slovakia and Sweden Eduard Heger and Magdalena Andersson, as well as the Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who is leaving his office.

The establishment of a new format, the European Political Community (EPC), was proposed by President Emmanuel Macron in May, during the French Presidency of the Union. He considered that existing organizations such as the Council of Europe and the OSCE were not platforms in which solutions to current problems could be sought.

He was later echoed by participants in the June EU summit. It was emphasised then that the current geopolitical challenges concern not only the 27 countries, but the entire continent. Hence, in Prague, in addition to the EU countries, representatives of 17 other countries are present, including the UK, Ukraine, Turkey and the Western Balkan states. Representatives of Russia and Belarus were not invited to the Prague meeting.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński