Ziobro complains to US Ambassador about Sikorski, questioning double standard regarding EU interference versus Trump’s support.
Ziobro Contacts US Ambassador
On Sunday, February 15, Ziobro appealed to the US ambassador to Poland, Thomas Rose, in a post on X. “Mr. Ambassador, is this not the double standard we are witnessing – EU blackmail is okay, but support from Trump is ‘interference’?,” he wrote. The PiS politician referred to his earlier post, in which he commented on Radosław Sikorski’s speech at the Munich Security Conference.
Ziobro Criticizes Sikorski
Ziobro stated that “when the German head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen blackmailed Poland by freezing billions of funds to overthrow the conservative government and make Donald Tusk prime minister, for Radosław Sikorski this was not interference in internal affairs or an attack on Poland’s sovereignty.”
“But when Donald Trump supported Karol Nawrocki in the presidential elections and J.D. Vance pressed for equal treatment of conservatives and true freedom of speech in Europe, Radosław Sikorski condemned this as ‘absolutely scandalous,’ as ‘unacceptable interference’ and an attempt by one side of the Atlantic to impose its values on the other. Pure hypocrisy from liberal-left EU politicians. Double standards?,” he wrote in an earlier post, in which he also tagged the US ambassador.
Sikorski’s Statement on Trump Administration
During a debate at the Munich Security Conference, Sikorski said that the US has broken with the unwritten principle of not interfering in the internal politics of allies. He cited as an example Donald Trump’s support for Karol Nawrocki before the presidential elections in Poland.
The Foreign Minister stated that “this is absolutely scandalous.” He also referred to the speech of US Vice President J.D. Vance, which the American politician delivered during last year’s Munich Security Conference. “What happened here a year ago is that the Vice President of the United States told us that our concept of freedom of speech is censorship. I simply don’t accept that. The difficulty we now face is that one side of the Atlantic is trying to impose its values on the other side, and that is unacceptable,” Sikorski said.
