Poland's main opposition party filed an impeachment motion against the foreign minister today accusing him of being prepared to sell out the country’s independence to the European Union.
The right-wing Law and Justice (LJ) party claimed that Radek Sikorski had violated the constitution by delivering a speech in Berlin on Monday in which he appealed to neighbouring Germany to take the lead in consolidating the EU in the face of the spiralling eurozone crisis.
“I demand of Germany that, for your own sake and for ours, you help the eurozone survive and prosper. You know full well that nobody else can do it,” Mr Sikorski told a meeting of the German Society for Foreign Affairs.
He said that Germany had a responsibility to “preserve peace and democracy” in Europe, claiming that the biggest threat to Poland’s security and prosperity would be the collapse of the eurozone.
And Mr Sikorski called for even closer EU economic integration, saying that the unelected European Commission should be granted greater supervisory powers over national budgets.
LJ leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said: “Against the constitution, and without consulting with parliament, Mr Sikorski went incredibly far with these declarations, which were made in a foreign country.
“In the past many Poles perished fighting for precisely those things that the government representatives are giving away without a word of protest.”
Mr Kaczynski called a protest rally for December 13 “against the policies presented by the head of the Foreign Ministry.”
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