“We are dealing with a government that governs badly and causes public finances in our country to collapse, while at the European level a budget is emerging for the reconstruction of the arms industry. If everything continues in this direction, the Polish taxpayer will pay for the reconstruction of the German arms industry,” warned PiS MP Mariusz Błaszczak.
Record budget gap
PiS politicians held a press conference where they spoke about the need to increase defense spending. They also mentioned the record budget deficit.
“In Poland, we have a record budget deficit and the money allocated to defense is not being spent on the scale it should be. In this context, let us look at the new EU financial perspective,” said Mariusz Błaszczak.
Will Poles finance the German industry?
According to the politician, “the threats result from centralization, from the fact that in the new financial perspective there will be reduced funding for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).”
“We are dealing with a government that governs badly and causes public finances in our country to collapse, while at the European level a budget is emerging for the reconstruction of the arms industry. If everything continues in this direction, the Polish taxpayer will pay for the reconstruction of the German arms industry. These are the threats we are facing,” he emphasized.
The PiS MEP pointed to the words of Prof. Tomasz Grosse, who in his analysis clearly presents the vision of new euro-taxes, which will mean a huge problem and rising living costs. “What is important, the European Commission (KE) intends to abolish the customs exemption for goods imported into the EU up to 150 euros. This will not be a tax to the Polish budget, but partly to the EU budget as its own resource. The politicization of the EU budget – political elites are to decide what funds and for what purposes go to the member states. This is an unequal distribution of funds. The expansion of the Commission’s powers – the EC is going further and further and is in fact creating a superstate,” he said.
He also pointed to a report which “is proof that if the EC’s proposal is not changed, it will be a knockout blow to the wallets of Poles.”
“This is a dramatic financial perspective, which means high prices, new taxes, a lack of decision-making powers for governments and no influence over the policy pursued by the EU. This is the first report of such scope, because it is one of the most important discussions that should be taking place right now,” he stressed.