The Senate and Sejm of the Republic of Poland have passed a law intended to integrate Poland into the European Union’s Security Action for Europe (SAFE) program. On the same day, Deputy Speaker Czarzasty forwarded the document for the President’s signature. We call for a veto that will safeguard Poland’s sovereignty in the area of security and armaments. Our detailed threat analysis reached the leaders of opposition parties and the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland in January. To date, all Polish opposition parties and many advisers to President Karol Nawrocki have spoken out firmly against the costly debt trap and the political dependence of armaments policy on Brussels.
Veto for SAFE! Let’s not allow Brussels to decide on Poland’s security!
SAFE is a loan of nearly 44 billion euros that our children and grandchildren will be repaying until 2071. SAFE is a trap initiated by Donald Tusk’s government during Poland’s presidency of the EU, because it forces Poland to take out a loan with a variable interest rate and in a foreign currency. As of today, funds from SAFE are more expensive than Poland’s government borrowing via bonds.
However, the most important thing is that SAFE gives EU officials the decisive say in shaping Poland’s defense and armaments strategy. It will depend on their decisions what Poland buys, from whom, and at what price, as part of the ongoing massive rearmament program. The Polish defense budget will cease to be a Polish instrument of development and diplomacy as it will be handed over to German influence in Brussels.
SAFE’s particularly dangerous objective is hidden in the infamous “rule-of-law conditionality mechanism,” which will allow eurocrats to influence… Polish elections. In just a few months, we’ll hear that if the patriotic opposition wins the 2027 elections, “rule-of-law violations” will be punished by suspending the disbursement of funds intended for the development of Poland’s defense capabilities.
We must show the government that President Karol Nawrocki will not be alone in opposing SAFE.
Therefore—regardless of the published analyses—we have launched an online petition calling for a presidential veto, which we strongly encourage our fellow countrymen to sign.
The debate over the passage of the Polish government’s bill on the EU SAFE program was full of manipulation, demagoguery, and moral blackmail. Donald Tusk called the program’s critics “blockheads” and tried to persuade Poles that rejecting the EU loan is an act to the detriment of the Polish state. For his part, Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said during a session of the Senate of the Republic of Poland that “the choice will be simple—either a strong, great, and secure Poland, or a weak, stunted, and defenseless Poland.”
Meanwhile, the SAFE program, whose name suggests that the loan is supposed to provide us with “security’” is in fact a serious threat to Poland. Although we will be repaying the gigantic loan (amounting to 44 billion euros) for 45 years, we will have… 4 years to spend the money. And yet the defense industry is growing. When, a dozen or so years from now, all the world’s armies are using more advanced technologies, our development will be paralyzed, because for many years we will be saddled with a gigantic debt for technology that will by then be obsolete—technology we won’t even have chosen ourselves, because we won’t be the ones who decide what we can buy. We won’t be able to use funds from the SAFE program to buy, for example, American Abrams tanks, HIMARS systems, and Apache helicopters, or Korean K2 tanks. It’s like taking out a mortgage from a bank for an apartment that a bank official will choose and furnish for us…
The EU wants to blackmail us again!
First and foremost, however, the SAFE program is a powerful tool for blackmailing Poles ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections. EU decision-makers have repeatedly shown that the “conditionality mechanism” embedded in the SAFE program serves to blackmail governments that defend their national sovereignty. We learned this firsthand when funds from the post-COVID NextGenerationEU recovery plan—blocked under the Law and Justice (PiS) government on the pretext of alleged “rule-of-law” issues—were disbursed to Poland immediately after the change of government, even though Donald Tusk’s government had not implemented any of the changes previously demanded by EU decision-makers in areas that do not fall within their scope of competence anyway. Now the threat is even greater than in the case of NextGenerationEU, because back then it was about suspending funds for ordinary investments, and now we’re talking about Poland’s security. Now, emotional blackmail against Poles can be even more effective.
The “conditionality mechanism” has already been used against Hungary, and now Slovakia is being threatened with it because… amendments were made to the Slovak Constitution that clearly underscore Slovak sovereignty. Eurocrats no longer pretend that the fine words about the “rule of law” and “European values” are anything other than a tool for the cynical blackmail of disobedient states. You’d have to be childishly naive to believe that Eurocrats won’t exploit the SAFE program to blackmail Poland, whose loan will be by far the largest among all EU member states.
This is why we prepared a critical analysis (in Polish) of the program and a petition to the President.
Ordo Iuris in defense of Polish sovereignty
At the same time, for years we have been doing everything in our power to ensure that Poles know the truth about the mechanisms governing the European Union and are prepared for the populist blackmail by politicians who try to convince us that anyone who does not support the EU’s current course is a supporter of “Polexit” or a “Russian agent.”
In recent months, we have been actively informing the public about a major threat to Poland’s independence—namely, the announced inclusion of the “rule-of-law” conditionality mechanism in the draft Multiannual Financial Framework for 2028–2034. You won’t find alarming articles on this topic in the media. Meanwhile, the idea of including the so-called conditionality mechanism in the EU budget is the greatest threat to Polish sovereignty, because the EU could blackmail us not only by suspending the disbursement of funds for a single loan, e.g., from the SAFE program, but by suspending all EU funds!
At the Ordo Iuris Institute, we do not limit ourselves to sounding the alarm. We always put forward concrete proposals for change that are a real response to existing threats.
Therefore, we have prepared, together with Hungary’s Mathias Corvinus Collegium, the report “The Great Reset”, in which we present two scenarios for EU reform that would restore democracy and sovereignty to the member states. We translated the report into 5 languages and presented it in Washington and 6 European capitals. It reached hundreds of key EU decision-makers and our U.S. partners. Italian broadcaster RAI produced an hour-long report in which it argues that our report is an inspiration for Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s European policy.
How can EU member states regain control over their own migration policy?
Furthermore, last week saw the Polish launch of another report prepared in cooperation with our international partners. We describe in it how European Union member states can reclaim effective authority over migration and asylum policy without changing the EU treaties.
The Polish launch of the report was attended by the Deputy Speaker of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, Krzysztof Bosak, a longtime Member of the European Parliament, Prof. Zdzisław Krasnodębski, and the authors of the publication. We have shown that we can unite Polish pro-sovereignty circles around sound analyses and plans.
The advisor to the President of the Republic of Poland, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, who opened and summarized the debate on the report, said: “Politico-legal and politico-constitutional blindness spares no one; that’s why it’s good that we have guides like Ordo Iuris, who show us what we should see, what to notice, what to anticipate, and what to prevent,” he noted.
Is Poland’s Foreign Minister afraid of Ordo Iuris? Radosław Sikorski spoke about our reports from the Sejm podium
The government fears our efforts to save Polish sovereignty. Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski expressed frustration with the effectiveness of our work in his annual address to the Sejm. In it, he shouted that “Poland’s Ordo Iuris and Hungary’s government-run Mathias Corvinus Collegium, in cooperation with American nationalist circles, are jointly building a program aimed at paralyzing the European Union!”
Ordo Iuris, alongside Donald Trump, was thus dubbed the most dangerous enemy of the European Union. I take such words from Radosław Sikorski as something of an exaggeration, but at the same time as a great sign of appreciation for our experts and donors.
Let me remind you that our foreign minister was a member of the Spinelli Group in the European Parliament, which brings together supporters of abolishing nation-states and creating a European “superstate,” and that his wife, Anne Applebaum, already a year ago was tracking our contacts in the United States and wrote that President Trump’s advisers were receiving from us proposals on “how to shape the future of the European Union.”
Together, we are a great force!
The European Union urgently needs real reform. By now, probably every rational person sees that the EU is politically, economically, competitively, and morally bankrupt. Either we will build a new framework for cooperation in Europe, based on respect for the sovereignty of states and the democratic will of nations, or we will slide into oblivion down the rocky road of a European dictatorship.
Politicians like Radosław Sikorski, who ignore the EU’s obvious crisis and aim to build a dysfunctional superstate, are the ones who are truly weakening Europe and seeking to paralyze it.
Therefore, I regard every criticism from the fanatics of fact-blind integration as a compliment and as a recognition of our effectiveness and genuine impact on reality.
The unease that the actions of Ordo Iuris have raised among supporters of abolishing nation-states (such as Radosław Sikorski) shows that our work is highly meaningful; that we are a real threat to the enemies of sovereignty and the architects of a European superstate.
Therefore, I encourage you to support us in defending Poland’s independence. You can do this by making a one-time donation to the Ordo Iuris Institute or by joining the Circle of Friends of Ordo Iuris, which brings together our regular donors, who are the foundation of funding our work.
Advocate Jerzy Kwaśniewski – President of the Ordo Iuris Institute.
See also:
Source of cover photo: iStock
