Poland's deputy prime minister and the leader of its ruling party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, accused Germany's new governmentof wanting to turn the European Union into a federal \"German Fourth Reich.\"<\/p>\n
In an interview with far-right Polish daily GPCpublished on Friday, the head of the Law and Justice (PiS) party said that some countries \"are not enthusiastic at the prospect of a German Fourth Reich being built on the basis of the EU.\"<\/p>\n
\"If we Poles agreed with this kind of modern-day submission, we would be degraded in different ways,\" said Kaczynski.<\/p>\n
He added that the EU's Court of Justice was being used as an \"instrument\" for federalist ideas.<\/p>\n
Other PiS leaders have recently used the same phrase to describe the intentions of Berlin's new center-left coalition government toward the European Union.<\/p>\n
The agreement forged by the three parties to form Germany's ruling coalitionstates that its ultimate goal is a federal European state. This aspect of the agreement was condemned by Poland's PiS government, with Kaczynski even claiming such a state would take away Poland's right to self-determination.<\/p>\n
During German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's visit to Warsaw earlier this month, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said the current German government's support for EU federalism was \"utopian and therefore dangerous.\"<\/p>\n
Poland has been involved in along-standing conflict with the European Union, particularly over the judicial changes that the PiS has pushed through since 2015.<\/p>\n
This week, the European Union said it was launching legal action against Poland for ignoring EU law and undermining judicial independence. Poland has also accused the EU of \"bureaucratic centralism.\"<\/p>\n
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