In the second part of the last presidential debate before the election, the candidates answered, among others, the question about the integration of the European Union. Competitors for the Presidential Palace shared around this matter.
Five days before the first round of elections at the presidential debate, all presidential candidates measured. In the first block of debates, the candidates answered questions related to national policy. You can read about what they said here.
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The second block concerned foreign policy. Three lecturers asked after one question, which all participants of the debate answered.
Question about an attitude towards European integration
The first question in this block was asked by Radomir Wit with TVN24: – We are strong by our alliances, such as European Union. How do you intend to reconcile national interests with the pursuit of deepening European integration and strengthening our position in the Union?
Marek Jakubiak
Jakubiak estimated that “the strength and power of the country is his internal power.” – We have to think about ourselves and real alliances. He is a real alliance for us North Atlantic Pactin which we play an important role today with the help of very good relations with the United States – he emphasized.
Hołownia stated that “Poland must be built in the European Union.” – We must be a country not only Eastern Europe, but also North Europe – he added.
According to him, together with France, Great Britain, Germany And Italy should “build a European axis”. – The European Union is our heritage. That is why I submitted a law in the Sejm to protect us against polexit – he noted.
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Krzysztof Stanowski
Stanowski criticized the politicians of the current government for their statements from the President of the USA Donald Trump in the past. – But the other side is not better. She could not do anything in the European Union for years – he added.
Adrian Zandberg
According to Zandberg, “Poland must take more responsibility for the future of the European project.” “What is one of the main tasks of the future president and the Polish government is a fight for changes that will help to facilitate public investments financed from the loan,” said Adrian Zandberg.
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As Trzaskowski pointed out, “the European Union finally began to speak our language.” – They want to spend more money on defense and our defense industry. They want to spend money to secure our border – he added.
He emphasized that “we will be treated by the Americans in a partner manner if we are strong in the European Union.” – Polish Prime Minister, Prime Minister of Great Britain, German Chancellor, French president were in Kiev and put pressure on Trump. And at the moment there is pressure on Russia, not Ukraine. It should be like that. Then we are influential – noted the candidate KO.
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Nawrocki, in turn, claimed: – We should build our relations in the European Union. We are needed today. We need Schengen zones. Poland should be today the leader of the European Union in building transatlantic relations.
He added that in the European Union “we can not be butlerists of German or French matters, but to take care of Polish affairs.” – Today, all the formulas and attempts to centralize the European Union, which I do not agree, are a threat to Poland – said Nawrocki.
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Marek Woch
Woch claimed that we were in an analogous situation, as in the past after World War II. – We must realize that there is simply geopolitics, continental reshuffles when it comes to agency. And the question is whether we have such a policy – he said.
Joanna Senyszyn
“The European Union is the best that happened to Poland in history,” Senyszyn said. According to her, we must “take care of the European Union, we must reform it.”
According to Senyszyn, “it is very important that there is a greater integration of” the European Union. – you need to ensure that the position Poland in the European Union She was definitely stronger – she concluded.
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Maciej Maciak
– The greater the amount of alliances, the better, but we must be able to nod there. For this we need the right people. They didn't work, let's change them – said Maciak.
Magdalena Biejat
Biejat indicated that “Poland's interest is in our alliance with the European Union.” She argued that “none of us lost the possibility of self -determination” after the introduction of the European Reconstruction Fund and the common European debt.
“Weaker France, weaker Germany is a greater chance for Poland to take over the reins much bolder than we have done so far,” she argued.
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Artur Bartoszewicz
Bartoszewicz reminded that, according to the research, Poles want to be in the European Union. – There has been a school of economic war in Paris for 25 years, because the economic war in the European Union is everyday life – he added.
Grzegorz Braun
The next Braun said that “you have to regain independence.” – I am the only candidate standing for these elections that this program proclaims – he assured.
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Sławomir Mentzen
Mentzen pointed out that as the president “he would not agree to further integration of the European Union.” – Polish national interests are much more important than the good of the European Union – he supplemented.
According to him, “further integration of the European Union is primarily in the interest of France and Germany.” – I will not agree to any change in EU treaties. I will not agree to any subsequent transfer of the competences of the Polish government to Brussels. I will not agree to the implementation of the migration pact – calculated Mentzen.
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