Mateusz Morawiecki: “I connect the dots. AfD is a threat to Poland”

Mateusz Morawiecki says the Alternative for Germany’s rise should alarm Poland, not please it. He also said he would prefer a stronger Polish army and a full military balance between Poland and Germany, rather than celebrating Germany’s growing defence spending.

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I would prefer to see a full balance between Poland and Germany here, and in fact I would prefer the Polish army to be stronger.

Morawiecki argued that the AfD already shows elements that should worry Polish politicians. He linked the party’s radicalism to what he described as possible revisionist demands against Poland, including the return of territory and compensation claims connected to Poland’s refusal to extradite a man suspected of involvement in the blowing up of a German-Russian pipeline.

He rejected a boycott as the answer to the AfD’s growing support. “We should talk to them and persuade them,” he said. Morawiecki blamed what he called Brussels’ left-liberal elites for the party’s rise, saying their policies had fueled a social revolt over job losses, migration and climate policy.

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We should talk to them and persuade them.

Responding to Donald Tusk’s claim that only idiots or traitors could welcome the AfD’s success, Morawiecki criticized policies he attributed to Tusk’s government, including its approach to migration and climate policy. He also questioned Tusk’s past political association with support for Nord Stream 2.

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The rise of the AfD is the child of the left-liberal elites in Brussels.

Morawiecki separately called for full support for a parliamentary commission investigating the Zondacrypto affair. He said he had repeatedly warned right-wing politicians about cryptocurrencies and hoped the scandal would damage Civic Platform and the Civic Coalition, though the supplied article ends during his remarks.

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We have nothing to hide. I think this is a good test for the Polish political class: who supports the investigative commission and who does not.