“If Poland had a government disliked by Brussels, OLAF (the European Anti-Fraud Office) teams would already be landing in Warsaw to investigate this pathological handout,” said PiS former MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski in an interview with the Biznes Alert portal.
Scandal after scandal
“In a way, this is a logical consequence of the current government’s stance — the same people who, while in opposition, blocked KPO funds at the Brussels level, ignoring Poland’s interests. They won the elections, and they still care little about those interests. This way of spending is simply the consequence of an anarchic approach to Poland’s national interest and to sound economic policy — pathological handouts to a chosen few at the expense of everyone else, at the cost of debt and the burden on future generations who will have to repay it,” Saryusz-Wolski commented.
He also pointed out how flawed the KPO is as a concept.
“The KPO is a triple trap set for member states by the Brussels oligarchy. First of all, this is borrowed money that will have to be repaid over the coming decades — it is not free money. Secondly, the repayment obligation, which begins with the new Multiannual Financial Framework (2028–2034), puts such pressure on the EU budget that the European Commission is proposing cuts of around 20 percent to agricultural and regional funding. We need to understand this clearly: money partly misspent in the KPO and partly left unspent will mean that the regular funding streams that should go to Polish farmers and regions will be cut,” Saryusz-Wolski explained.
“We are witnessing a Hamiltonian moment — common debt and common taxes were the beginning of the creation of the American state. A similar constitutional intention, alongside EU treaty changes, lies at the heart of the decision to create the RRF. Not development, not Covid — but a power grab,” he stressed in the interview with Biznes Alert.