
“I’d do it again:” Former Conservative PM Dragged to Court in Tusk’s Poland
ECR President Mateusz Morawiecki is on trial for wanting to organize mail-in elections during the COVID-19 lockdowns, even though he was already acquitted years ago.
ECR President Mateusz Morawiecki is on trial for wanting to organize mail-in elections during the COVID-19 lockdowns, even though he was already acquitted years ago.
Tusk’s Minister of Justice wants to make an example of conservative Morawiecki, who now chairs the ECR group in the European Parliament.
The EU needs reforms to pull back from the “recent ideological madness,” the Polish former PM said.
“Europe has a MEGA past—let’s build its MEGA future too,” the conservative bloc’s likely next leader said in Rome.
At the very least, the ECR and ID groups will need to work more closely together to counter the “federalist” forces in the European Parliament.
If passed without unanimous voting, the pact “will not work and its implementation will be paralysed,” Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán said.
Meloni and other leaders in the European Parliament’s conservative bloc want Orbán to join them “to save Europe,” but on one condition: changing course on Ukraine.
Mateusz Morawiecki and ECR co-chair MEP Ryszard Legutko look set to greenlight Hungary’s ruling party joining the group after the EU elections.
Mateusz Morawiecki has two weeks to shore up support for his conservative government, but has little chance of success.
After claiming the PiS government has violated the constitution, the opposition now wants President Duda to ignore protocol.