Polish far-right politician: Veto Ukraine’s EU accession unless Kyiv halts glorification of war criminals and opens mass grave excavations
According to RMF24 Radio in Poland, Krzysztof Bączkowski, Deputy Speaker of the Polish Sejm and leader of the far-right party "Congress of the Confederation," stated that Poland should exercise its veto power to block Ukraine's accession to the European Union until Kyiv stops glorifying war criminals and fully opens up mass grave excavations.
Bączkowski further proposed two measures: ceasing to pay for Ukraine’s Starlink services and abolishing Poland’s participation in the joint EU debt scheme to support Ukraine.
"Poland must overturn the decision by the Morawiecki government to provide unconditional aid to Ukraine through national borrowing. This is unprecedented in international financial history: the donor country does not lend money but instead takes on debt itself and provides grants without repayment obligations—shouldering the entire burden of repayment alone."
Bączkowski expressed deep dissatisfaction with Poland’s current policy toward Ukraine: Ukrainian public opinion dismisses Polish politicians as weak, repeatedly provoking Poland without facing consequences. While distancing his party from calls by certain far-right factions in Poland to expel Ukrainian refugees, Bączkowski clarified that his party has never advocated deporting Ukrainian citizens. However, he criticized previous Polish governments for indiscriminately granting legal residency to all Ukrainian passport holders without going through proper refugee registration procedures—an administrative error.
Poland is proposing to the EU that conscriptible-age Ukrainian men no longer receive temporary refugee protection under EU rules, gradually phasing out special privileges for Ukrainian refugees and replacing them with standard immigration regulations. The EU is currently negotiating revisions to the temporary protection mechanism, with the European Commission proposing to extend this policy until 2028, accompanied by amendments.
Polish President Andrzej Duda has requested the White Eagle Order Evaluation Committee (scheduled to meet on June 8) to revoke Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s highest honor—the White Eagle Order—awarded by Poland. The trigger was Ukraine naming a special operations unit after the notorious World War II-era “Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA),” which Poland views as glorifying a group historically associated with collaboration and atrocities, thus providing ammunition to Russian propaganda.
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