EU Summit Reveals the Discontent – Are its Days Numbered?

The EU summit on Thursday ended illustrating the deep divisions and how the EU is collapsing. Poland has rejected the re-election of President Donald Tusk, who is Polish, for his autocratic leadership that refuses to look at the economic decline. Poland tried to block his election and this has led to a deep disagreement between Poland and the rest of the EU member states. Poland denounced the EU as an instrument of German power interests and vetoed all resolutions of the summit. Poland responded to its efforts to prevent the confirmation of Tusk at the head of the council.
Tusk, in response, warned Poland: ‘Be careful what bridges you break behind you,’ he said. Because after ‘you can never cross them’.
The Polish government has made it clear that Germany refuses to listen to the views of other members and imposes its economic views of austerity upon the whole of Europe because of Merkel’s misapprehension of the German Hyperinflation. Poland delivered very serious accusations to EU summit partners. ‘We now know what that is, an EU under the dictate from Berlin,’ said Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski. They have made it clear that the fact that a large country such as Poland is ignored is a ‘very poisonous union’.

This post was published at Armstrong Economics on Mar 11, 2017.