Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki condemned the “de facto oligarchy” imposed by France and Germany in the European Union, calling for a “return to the principles” of the EU, in an article about the war in Ukraine published in Le Monde on Tuesday. .

The conflict in Ukraine “revealed the truth about a Europe” that “refused to listen to the voice of truth” from Poland about Vladimir Putin’s “imperialist” ambitions, which “illustrates the broader problem facing the EU today.” , quoted by AFP.

“In it, the equality of individual states has a declarative nature. Political practice shows that the German and French votes are of paramount importance,” said the head of the Polish government.

“So we are dealing with a formal democracy and a de facto oligarchy in which the power is held by the strongest.”

The European Union is “increasingly unable to respect the freedom and equality of all member states,” he insisted. He added that “increasingly we hear that the future of the entire community should be decided by the majority rather than unanimity”.

Abandoning the principle of unanimity in several areas of EU competence brings us closer to a model in which the strongest and largest dominate the weakest and smallest,” Moravetskyi argued, for whom the Union “didn’t solve the task” “in the face of war.”

The Polish Prime Minister called for “a return to the principles that organize the European community.”

“Europe needs hope more than ever. And it can find this hope only in a return to principles, and not in strengthening the institutional superstructure,” he said.

Poland, like the Baltic states, is one of Ukraine’s strongest supporters in the EU, but is also Russia’s biggest critic, unlike Germany and France, whose sometimes more timid positions are criticized by Kyiv.