Polish PM discusses EU financial security in the Hague
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
08.02.2017 19:08
Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło met her Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte in the Hague on Wednesday to discuss Brexit, EU financial security and bilateral relations.
Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło with her Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte. Photo: Twitter.com/@PremierRP
Addressing a press conference after the meeting, Szydło said that after the UK leaves the EU, “Poland and the Netherlands will take over the burden of the defence of the common market,” Szydło said.
She said that Poland and the Netherlands want to work out a solution that will keep the EU together so that, after Brexit, further countries do not decide to leave the bloc.
During her talk with Rutte, Szydło raised the issue of providing Polish language classes for the children of Poles living in the Netherlands.
Szydło’s visit comes a month before parliamentary elections in the Netherlands which are likely to be of key significance for the country’s political future.
The leader of the Eurosceptic Freedom Party, Geert Wilders, has openly attacked Poles living in the Netherlands, calling them “thieves” and “drunkards”.
Polls show the Freedom Party could win the elections.
The future of the European Union was a key topic of talks between Szydło and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Warsaw on Tuesday.
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