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In Furious Attack, Poland Slams "Arrogant" Macron, Says "You Won't Rule Europe

• zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden

The latest spat started on Friday when French President Emmanuel Macron said that Poland was isolating itself within the European Union and Polish citizens "deserve better" than a government at odds with "the bloc's democratic values and economic reform plans." Macron said Warsaw, where a eurosceptic government took office in 2015, was moving in the opposite direction to Europe on numerous issues and "would not be able to dictate the path of Europe's future."

"Europe is a region created on the basis of values, a relationship with democracy and public freedoms which Poland is today in conflict with," Macron said in Bulgaria on the third leg of a trip to central and eastern Europe to generate support for his vision of a Europe that better protects its citizens, according to Reuters.

In a vicious attack that is certain to drag relations between western EU powers and the European Commission in Brussels on one side and Poland's Law and Justice Party (PiS) government on the other to a new low, he said the Polish people deserved better: "Poland is not defining Europe's future today and nor will it define the Europe of tomorrow," Macron slammed at a joint press conference with Bulgarian President Rumen Radev in the Black Sea resort city of Varna.


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