POLEXIT? Poland may ‘NO LONGER’ be EU member state, leading Europhile warns
By CHARLIE BAYLISS
EXPRESS
Jean Asselborn questioned whether the eastern European nation would remain within the crumbling Brussels bloc under Jaroslaw Kaczynski – the chairman of the ruling Law and Justice party in Poland.Kaczynski wants to avoid deeper integration with Brussels and is expected to help fight for the rights of Poles in Britain once Article 50 is triggered.
GETTY/ REUTERS – Jaroslaw Kaczynski (right) may lead Poland out of the EU
GETTY – Kaczynski addressed a news conference on Tuesday
Mr Asselborn said “today’s Poland under Jaroslaw Kaczynski could be an EU member no longer”.Former Polish prime minister Mr Kaczynski also wants to “create a right-wing conservative social order based on nationality”, according to Mr Asselborn.The Luxembourg politician said that Poland “no longer respects the Copenhagen criteria that the country had to meet before EU accession”.
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He added: “The government in Poland is more and more involved in restricting the rule of law.”President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has not received the support to run for a second term by Kaczynski.The future of the European superstate has been thrown into turmoil since Brexit, with Hungarian leader Viktor Orban slamming the immigration policies adopted the Eurocrats in Belgium.
GETTY – Jean Asselborn said Poland may ‘no longer’ be an EU state under Kaczynski
Mr Asselborn has previously demanded that Hungary must be suspended from the EU as he claimed the central European nation treated refugees like “animals” and had violated the “core values” shared by the 28 member nation group.Orban was the only European leader to publicly express his support for Donald Trump during the presidential campaign.Trump reportedly sent Orban a message thanking him for his congratulations on his inauguration, according to an official government website.
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