The head of Poland's ruling party, Jarosaw Kaczyski, said that Germany is trying to turn the EU into a federal German fourth Reich. According to the head of the Law and Justice Party PiS, some countries are not enthusiastic about the prospect of a German fourth reich being built on the basis of the EU If Poles agreed with this kind of modern-day submission, we would be degraded in different ways, said Kaczy ski, who is also a deputy prime minister. He said that the European court of justice was being used as an instrument for federalist ideas.
Poland has been involved in a long standoff with the EU, particularly over the judicial changes that PiS has pushed through since 2015.
The EU said this week it was launching legal action against Poland for ignoring EU law and undermining judicial independence.
Poland accused the bloc of bureaucratic centralism during a visit to Warsaw by the new German chancellor Olaf Scholz this month, the prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that the Berlin government's support for EU federalism was utopian and therefore dangerous.