Any prospect of Polexit is now off the cards – the election results put us (unlike the poor Brits) back inside the EU tent, says author Witold Szabłowski
Any prospect of Polexit is now off the cards – the election results put us back inside the EU tenten days ago, my friends and I watched the performance of a strange play on Polish public television.
We didn’t know how many people would vote until the last moment. But from the very early hours, we heard a stories about long lines at the polling stations. There was another story about a Polish student in Japan who travelled 1,500km from Okinawa, where he studies, to Tokyo, so he could cast his overseas vote. Hour after hour, we saw more and more people wanting their vote to count.
At some point, Brussels grew tired of Poland’s democratic backsliding and decided to make €36bn in EU Covid recovery support, earmarked for Poland, conditional on Warsaw’s observance of the rule of law. A few days ago, we lived in semi-dictatorship. Today we are a vibrant democracy that knew how and when to protect itself from the populists and Putin’s puppets. Isn’t that great?
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