Polish leader casts doubt on eurozone integration

The Polish delegation from the centre-right European Conservatives and Reformists Group in Warsaw organized the event in the European Parliament. The creation of a single European state, '' the United States of Europe', is a dangerous utopia that can only be built on the basis of legal assumptions and the extended competences of individual institutions, according to Morawiecki. Our voice may be weaker or stronger, but the more we speak to common sense, we show that these differences cannot and should not be 'equalised'. He added that this would impoverish the European heritage and lead to a very dangerous experiment with many utopian features. The Polish leader has hit out at Brussels over its failed currency project. He said that the eurozone was created 20 years ago and that the question is still hanging in the air whether this is an optimal currency area. I used to deal with this in the past and I can say that there are increasingly more indications that the eurozone is not an optimal currency based on the available literature. He said that the eurozone is a collision of the political will of some elites with the harsh economic reality. There is an increasing obstacle to the integration of the eurozone, and also of the EU. They are divided into 27. significantly different. The comments come as Poland is still locking horns with the EU over the rule of law in the country. A legal opinion by the EU's advocate general stated that the European Union's top court should dismiss a challenge by Poland and Hungary to a new tool designed to cut cash for member states that break the bloc's democratic rules. The European Court of Justice ECJ usually follows it when making a final decision, which is expected to be made early in 2022, although the advocate general's opinion is not binding. The opinion said that the new policing mechanism does not overstep the competences of the EU and its central institutions in Brussels as laid out in the Treaties of the EU after the poll shock REACTION France issues fishing ultimatum UK given six days to cave in VIDEO A danger to the world's EU blasted over brazen and'reckless' raid on LIVE BLOG. Polish and Hungarian officials criticised the opinion, with a deputy justice minister, Sebastian Kaleta, saying in Warsaw: It was a naivety to trust EU institutions would be capable of self-restraint. Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga said that the advocate general disregarded obvious legal mistakes in the cash-for-democraty conditionality mechanism. We don't believe in rule of law blackmail! She added.