Prophecy: Von der Leyen’s agenda will trigger street protests across Europe
Former Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski has warned that Ursula von der Leyen’s controversial agenda as President of the European Commission will lead to street protests across the continent.
In an interview with wPolityce.pl, Witold Waszczykowski, former Polish foreign minister and former member of the European Parliament for the Law and Justice party (PiS), has expressed his strong opposition to the re-election of Ursula von der Leyen as head of the European Commission. Waszczykowski believes that von der Leyen’s second term will be marked by confrontational street protests due to her ambitious and, in his opinion, unrealistic promises.
Waszczykowski predicts that von der Leyen’s agenda will lead to protests by farmers and workers on the streets of European cities.
“Citizens will pay more and more for these ideas,” he warned, recalling the “yellow vest” movement in France and suggesting that such protests could spread across Europe. “These bureaucratic whims will not be accepted by ordinary people,” he added.
He also pointed out the corruption that, in his opinion, prevailed during von der Leyen’s term as president.
“Von der Leyen’s previous term in office was riddled with scandals and mistakes,” said Waszczykowski. “From the scandal surrounding the procurement of vaccines via SMS to the ‘Qatargate’ corruption scandal and the Brexit debacle, her term in office was anything but exemplary.”
Despite this criticism, von der Leyen secured a second term in office, which Waszczykowski attributes to the pact she made with the Left and the Greens before the election.
“By promising support for the Green Deal and constitutional changes outside the treaty, she secured a majority,” he said.
Waszczykowski also questioned why some MEPs from the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) supported von der Leyen. He suspected that their support stemmed from fear of being marginalised by the political majority and a desire to retain some influence.
“Many conservative circles in the West practice asymptomatic conservatism,” he said, “they use conservative rhetoric but behave like liberals.”
The former minister is convinced that PiS’s current strategy is wrong and that it should have joined forces with Marine Le Pen’s Patriots for Europe to form a strong conservative bloc and negotiate changes in the EU.
Regarding von der Leyen’s promises and announcements during the debate, Waszczykowski compared them to the unrealistic promises made by Donald Tusk in Poland.
“These are all fantasies,” he said. “The EU is being marginalized by China, by the US and, above all, by Russia. Von der Leyen experienced this herself in Ankara, when she was not even offered a seat next to President Erdoğan.”
He also expects von der Leyen’s second term to further advance the trend towards a superstate in which decisions at EU level are made by majority vote, which could lead to similar coercion and blackmail tactics as those used by Tusk in Poland.
“Countries, including Poland, will be afraid to leave the EU for geopolitical reasons,” said Waszczykowski, “and they will be forced to accept all these eccentricities under the threat of Polexit.”
Unless significant socio-political movements emerge to oppose these changes, Waszczykowski fears that Europe will be pushed into a terrible dystopic future.
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July 31, 2024