Negotiations between Angela Merkel and Mateusz Morawiecki on a mechanism to link EU funds to the rule of law have been unsuccessful. According to the Polish Prime Minister, the current project does not guarantee legal certainty.

It is very difficult to find a solution for the European Union budget for the next seven years, the fund to repair the damage caused by the coronavirus epidemic and the conditionality mechanism, said Steffen Seibert, spokesman for the German presidency in Berlin on Friday. .

Seibert replied that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki had a meeting. It was previously known that Merkel was also negotiating with Poland and Hungary after both member states vetoed legislation on the EU’s seven-year budget and ambassador-level recovery fund because the community had accepted the rule of law.

These negotiations are “ongoing,” said the government spokesman, adding that he did not have the opportunity to provide details, but could say: a solution has not yet been found.

As she said, Angela Merkel considered that a “very good and balanced compromise” had been reached in the negotiations between the German Presidency and the European Parliament on the mechanism governing the conditions of use of the budget and the recovery fund. However, more negotiations are needed on what might be a mutually acceptable solution.

It was mentioned that Fidesz MEP Tamás Deutsch cited the Gestapo as an example in connection with a statement by Manfred Weber, leader of the European People’s Party in the European Parliament. A Merkel spokesperson on the case said

In Europe, insults never lead to win-win results ”.

Morawiecki: Poland is ready to veto the budget

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki also reported on the Merkel trial. He said that Poland looks forward to the resumption of EU negotiations on a long-term budget and hopes for a quick result that guarantees the rights of member states and respects the procedures enshrined in EU treaties.

In a report posted on Facebook, Morawiecki wrote that Warsaw will defend compliance with the EU treaties and the sovereign right of member states to implement reforms. He also added that the basic treaties enshrining primary law take precedence over any secondary mechanism than the current proposals from the EU institutions. For Poland, this is the basis and the starting point for future EU negotiations.

According to Morawiecki, the current system of budget conditions

it is not approved and cannot be approved.

He also said that Poland and Hungary opposed its adoption at the ambassadorial level last week. According to him, the veto right in the EU should be maintained as a “guarantee that all the positions and reservations of the Member States are taken into account”.

According to the Prime Minister, the current draft on the conditions of the rule of law in the budget package does not guarantee legal certainty, its criteria are general and allow a very broad interpretation. EU President-in-Office Merkel, on behalf of Germany, ensured that Poland was willing to veto the budget if “good solutions could not be found for the entire European Union, not just for some of its member states.”

As he said, he asked Merkel to study in depth the Polish argument, which is important for the current debate, but also for the unity and future of Europe.



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