Incoming ECR President Mateusz Morawiecki this week stated in a meeting with Georgia Meloni that he aims to "defeat Mordor". Euronews spoke to him regarding his real-life definition of the fictional evil empire.
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00:00Where is Mordor, the empire of evil?
00:05According to the former Prime Minister of Poland, it is to be found in Russia, but a
00:09few other places too.
00:11Mateusz Morawiecki recently dedicated a copy of the Lord of the Rings to Italian Prime
00:15Minister Giorgio Meloni and we shall defeat Mordor together, he said.
00:20During a recent trip to Brussels, Euronews asked Morawiecki where he would locate the
00:24fictional evil empire in reality.
00:27Of course today Russia under Putin is the empire of evil, but also all those forces
00:34which are so much destructive across the European Union, which are fighting with sovereign states,
00:41which try to centralize power, they are not good for the European Union.
00:48I wouldn't call them exactly Mordor because I want to cooperate with them.
00:54Meloni is referring to a European Parliament proposal to change the EU treaties in ways
00:57that would give more powers to the EU.
01:00He opposes this and is set to replace Meloni now as president of the Eurosceptic group
01:05European Conservative and Reformists, the ECR.
01:08He also denounces attempts to impose a so-called cordon sanitaire around right-wing forces
01:13in the European Parliament.
01:16All of a sudden a new coalition emerged, the EPP plus the Conservatives, we the Conservatives,
01:25and also the Patriots for Europe, and we are able to decide about serious issues.
01:32Of course this was not the coalition which was voting for this European Commission, notwithstanding
01:40that we are able to decide about the future of Europe.
01:44But the most difficult task could be to overcome the strong polarization between Polish political
01:49parties.
01:50Morawiecki's Law and Justice Party and Prime Minister Donald Tusk's centre-right Civic
01:55Platform clearly don't see eye to eye, and they are a part in the European Parliament
01:59as members of ECR and EPP groups.
02:01I can cooperate even with devils for the good of my country and for the good of the European
02:09Union.
02:10Unfortunately, there is a very clear indication that the current government does not want
02:15to work on improving and repairing the European Union.
02:24In Brussels, Morawiecki slammed the programme of the Polish Presidency, which will be chaired
02:28under Tusk in the European Council from January 1st for six months.