2018-10-05 14:18 update: 2018-10-07, 15:57
epa07069184 Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki (2-R) talks with journalists during a visit to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, New York, USA, on 04 October 2018. EPA/JUSTIN LANE Dostawca: PAP/EPA.
"Poland is very much pro-European, but a little bit Brussels-sceptic", said Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who was visiting the United States, in an interview with the CNN news channel on Thursday.
Richard Quest, a well-known CNN journalist, asked the prime minister about the issue of the rule of law, over which he believes "Poland is in the deepest of trouble with the European Union."
"This is what some people believe," Morawiecki replied.
"That is not a belief, that is a fact," the journalist pointed out, referring to the EU Treaty's Article 7 rule-of-law procedure against Poland over justice reforms.
"The countries from Western Europe which did not come through the communist times and post-communist times do not understand the idiosyncrasies and the different things that are happening in the central part of Europe, in the Czech Republic, in Hungary, in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia and some other countries. And this is what we try to explain, that Poland is very much pro-European, but a little bit Brussels-sceptic," said PM Morawiecki. (PAP)
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