This may include ads from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. The head of the country's ruling party, Jaroslaw Kaczyski, said the staunch attack came from the head of the country's ruling party. Speaking to the far-right Polish Daily GPC, he said that some nations are not enthusiastic about the prospect of a German Fourth Reich being built on the basis of the EU He added: If Poles agreed with this kind of modern-day submission we would be degraded in different ways. According to Kaczy ski, the EU's Court of Justice ECJ was being used as an instrument to pursue a federal project for the bloc. The attack came after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Moraqiecki and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had already clashed over the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that delivers natural gas from Russia to Germany. His government is committed to safeguarding Ukraine's role as a transit route for gas into Europe as Russian troop movements along the Ukrainian border have increased pressure on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, according to Scholz.
North Stream 2, which would carry Russian gas to Germany and bypass Ukraine, has not been certified due to regulatory hurdles, while Poland and the US have demanded a halt to the pipeline if Russia invades Ukraine. Germany's new government hasn't made a public commitment to block it. During his first visit to Poland as chancellor, Scholz said Germany felt responsible for Ukraine's gas transit business, as well as his predecessor Angela Merkel. He said the same goes for future opportunities. We will help Ukraine be a country that will be a major source of renewable energy and the necessary production that results from that. We are in concrete talks about how we can help achieve that. READ MORE: Why is Poland proving a thorn in the EU's side as the nation refuses to bow to her.
But Morawiecki argued that the pipeline will increase the ability of the Kremlin to put pressure on Ukraine and the European Union. He said that we are very nervous about the scenarios that could take place after the opening of Nord Stream 2. He said that other Eastern European countries could be blackmailed by Russia. He continued: That's why I told the chancellor about the great risks involved in opening Nord Stream 2. Poland has been locking horns with Brussels over issues of rule of law and human rights. The EU took action against Poland for breaking EU laws INSIGHT EU in crisis: Hungary and Poland team up to force hammer blow ANALYSIS Putin caves as EU checkmates Russia REACTION The row resulted in the EU Commission's decision to withhold recovery funds to Warsaw before the end of the year. At the beginning of December, the approval work is ongoing, according to the European Commission Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis. It is unlikely that we will be able to finalise it this year. He spoke at the end of the meeting of European finance ministers in Brussels. If the plans had been approved, Poland would have been entitled to a first instalment of 13 percent of the total of €23.9 billion in subsidies it is due to receive over the next five years.