According to wPolityce editor-in-chief Marzena Nykiel, Poland’s current Tusk-led government is subordinating the country to solutions created by Brussels and Berlin. While Three Seas held their 10th anniversary summit in Warsaw, the European People’s Party (EPP) also held a gathering in Valencia, with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz devising his own concept of the future of the European Union under German leadership.
Nykiel highlighted three key points: “The region of countries that make up the Three Seas Initiative is of great geopolitical importance,” the alliance of 13 EU member states is not in Germany’s interest, and U.S. President Donald Trump favors it.
Poland is, she says, “the natural leader of this part of Europe,” and “a true, pro-Polish government” would take a greater interest in Three Seas to support Polish sovereignty. They would not boycott the summit, as did Tusk, not try “to push the United States out of Europe,” as the chief editor says Merz and Tusk hope to do as they formulate a stronger Europe with its own European army, i.e., no more orders from NATO.
“In terms of building an EU superstate, Germany is going further and further. It is therefore obvious that they are stifling any initiatives that would support the competitiveness of other countries,” Nykiel writes, then quoting Merz himself in Valencia: “With the government we lead, you will have the biggest EU supporters you have ever seen.”
According to Nykiel, Merz believes that with Trump in the White House, Europe must band together for military rearmament and other challenges on the horizon. Joint weapons development/purchases “is not optional, it is a necessary condition for maintaining peace and freedom on our European continent,” the German chancellor told the EPP Conference.
Nykiel then cites the EU’s white paper on the “Future of European Defence,” which she says PiS and Confederation MEPs saw as a danger to Poland’s security, as it outlines “regulations transferring competences and sovereignty in the area of security to foreign hands, de facto German ones, depriving member states of authority over the area of defense policy.”
She also bemoans its call to abandon the principle of unanimity in matters of international policy and defense, as Poland would no longer be able to control its own sovereign defense policy nor dictate where Polish soldiers were deployed.
Emphasizing the danger of Poland capitulating to Germany’s will, the chief editor points out that Poles should know how this ends, with examples from past history or even today, with Poland being forced to take on Germany’s surplus migrants per the EU’s migration pact and Germany clearly already doing so all while Merz claims he is fighting illegal migration.
Tusk and Merz have supposedly made a deal to stop these inflows, but many, like Marzena Nykiel, are suspect.
“There is no point in deluding ourselves that this approach of the Germans will ever change. We know Polish history too well not to draw conclusions from it,” she says.
Nykiel then accuses the Tusk government of caving to Berlin and Brussels, achieving nothing for Poles while president of the EU Council. “It does not use any means of opposition, does not take action to secure Polish sovereignty. It is not able to use the current presidency to promote its own country even to a minimal extent. (…) Can one imagine greater allies of external forces?” Nykiel asks.