A KEY European summit on how the bloc will proceed after Brexit descended into farce this evening as Poland vowed to veto the idea of a “two-speed” Europe backed by the most powerful member states.
GETTY Polish PM Beata Szydlo said she would veto a two-speed Europe
GETTY French president Francois Hollande reportedly reacted with fury to the move
GETTY Poland has been at loggerheads with Brussels over the re-election of Donald Tusk
It will infuriate Angela Merkel and Mr Hollande, who believed that they had forged a viable way forward for the project after meeting for a high-profile summit on the EU’s future at the palace of Versailles.
Following that meeting the bloc’s most powerful duo, alongside Italian PM Paolo Gentiloni and Spain’s Mariano Rajoy, jointly endorsed the idea that a core nucleus of eurozone states should be free to integrate more quickly.
If someone says ‘you’re not behaving properly so you won’t get the money’ – that’s unacceptable
A draft declaration of the EU Council revealed today shows how a multi-speed Europe is increasingly being put at the heart of the bloc’s post-Brexit planning despite Warsaw’s objections.
The document, drawn up by Jean-Claude Juncker’s EU Commission, states: “We will work together to promote the common good, on the understanding that some of us can move close, further and faster in some areas, keeping the door open to those who want to join later, and preserving the integrity of the single market, the Schengen area, and the EU as a whole.”
It also explicitly calls for “an undivided and indivisible Union, which acts together whenever possible, at different paces and intensity whenever necessary”.
Ms Szydlo has even threatened to use her veto to stop the appointment of Mr Tusk despite being outvoted by the other 27 member states, drawing a furious rebuke from Mr Hollande who said her country would face “legal consequences” if it did so.
The EU modus operandi….blackmail then if that doesn’t work throw the country and it’s citizens under the bus. I hope if there is a hell down there that Merkel and her vile buds all end up there for eternity.
Doesn’t Poland and all of the other nett recipient Countries realise that they are being bought? Why else would all of the richer nett providers give away all that money? Surely they do not believe it is because of the largess of those nice, kind people in Brussels? Greece fell foul of that kind of thinking and when the 2008 crash came, Germany and all of the others decided that they needed their money back. Greece, of course, could not pay it and have since been subjected to intense degradation and contempt. There is the strong possibility of an even… Read more »