The meeting was attended by, inter alia, Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary, Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister of Poland, Marine Le Pen, chairwoman of the French Rassemblement National, Santiago Abascal, leader of Spanish party VOX, and Valdemar Tomaševski, chairman of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania-Christian Families’ Alliance, Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
‘Today in Warsaw we host the leaders of 13 centre-right parties from the European Union. We had a very good meeting and a good discussion; we are convinced that the current direction is just another attempt at appropriating the competences of national states by EU institutions,’ said MEP Tomasz Poręba (Law and Justice). He also added, that another meeting would follow in order to prepare a coherent vision of the European Union.
‘We want a completely different European Union - we want sovereign homelands, sovereign countries, governments, but we also want to cooperate well with European institutions at the level of government-institutional relations. But citizens must have a greater say,’ stated Poręba.
‘This conference, hopefully, will be a significant part of an undertaking that is very important for the European right-wing parties, but also very important for the European Union, for Europe,’ said Jarosław Kaczyński at the opening of the discussions. He emphasized that the aim of the meeting is to strengthen cooperation and building the perspective of unity between the two right wing groups in the European Parliament and to oppose further federalization of the European Union.
The session ended with the adoption of a joint declaration by the leaders of the parties that took part in the meeting.
A joint statement by the leaders of European conservative parties after the ‘The Warsaw Summit’ meeting:
