A meeting of members of the European Affairs Committee of the parliaments of Poland, France and Germany was held in Berlin on Monday. ‘I think we can speak of a revival of cooperation within the Weimar Triangle,’ MP Agnieszka Pomaska (KO), head of the parliamentary committee for EU affairs, told PAP in Berlin.
‘The talks were mainly about the current, most urgent issues: the question of security in Europe in connection with the conflict in Ukraine, the question of enlargement of the European Union and, of course, the upcoming Polish presidency,’ – Pomaska informed.
There are high hopes for the Polish presidency. ‘I make no secret of the fact that it was very nice to hear this, but it is also a responsibility, of course, so I treat these talks today as preparations for the Polish Presidency and a readiness to speak with one voice in the European Union within the framework of the Weimar Triangle’. – emphasised the head of the EU affairs committee.
‘We, first of all, treat assistance to Ukraine as necessary in the context of the security of the whole of Europe’. – she added.
The issues of EU enlargement are also security guarantees for Europe. ‘The larger, the stronger the European Union, the greater will be not only the sense of security, but the sheer power to strike back, to deter those who have in mind aggression against any of the European countries’. – the MP stressed.
The issues of EU enlargement are also security guarantees for Europe. ‘The larger, the stronger the European Union, the greater the sense of security will be, but the sheer power to strike back, to deter those who would think of aggression against any of the European countries’. – the MP stressed.
Asked about possible concerns over a possible change in US policy towards Europe after Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election, Pomaska replied: ‘we didn’t talk about it in the context of a concern, rather we talked about it in the context of even a certain chance; that is, we can’t look at anyone’. The North Atlantic Alliance, the United States is, she added, the guarantor of security in Europe, but should not be the only guarantor of security.
‘We need to be able and able to count on ourselves. And hence we need strong cooperation in the European Union. A policy that is also open to new, further European countries. And we need to find as soon as possible such a formula for cooperation, so that the power of action and the decisions that are taken in Europe are indeed greater,’ said PAP’s Agnieszka Pomaska. – Agnieszka Pomaska told PAP.
source: pap.pl
