“I will not apologise for being Polish, for being a Christian, for being someone who is attached to such supposedly outdated values as truth, freedom, solidarity and to law and justice”, said Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Sunday 9 October at the convention of the conservative Spanish party VOX in Madrid.

Last weekend, the Spanish capital hosted a series of ‘Viva22’ events under the theme: ‘The history we made together’, organised by the VOX party, which is the third force in Spain’s parliament. The event was attended by Mateusz Morawiecki.

During his speech, the Polish Prime Minister stressed that there is a bond between Poland and Spain that stems from shared values.

“Although Poland and Spain are located at two extreme ends of Europe, we share the same values. Independence above all else. For centuries we have lived on the borders of civilisations. Spain in the west and Poland in the east, we were the two wings of Europe, and the power of these wings was fidelity to tradition” Morawiecki said.

According to the Polish Prime Minister, “today the European Union wants to turn its back on tradition, thus cutting these wings”.

As he stressed, “a small number of bureaucrats in Brussels think that they can create Europe, but they are wrong. Europe is made of nations; free and sovereign nations”.

Prime Minister Morawiecki said that the European Union is investing in bureaucracy instead of building on the power of European nations and their traditions.

“Brussels bureaucrats are expanding their competences without any treaty basis, we cannot allow this, in this way they will be able to actually create a transnational beast without real and traditional values, without a soul”, said Mateusz Morawiecki.

Adrian Andrzejewski