I seldom advertise my column here, latest But he's very crucial to me. In it I return to the thesis which I have already expressed respective times in social media, among others. on the blog – but it is so crucial to me that I went to the library in search of strong arguments.
Before I go to the meritum, a methodological remark. possibly I didn't request to bother, possibly it's all digitized, and it can be Googled.
Specific questions: can you find the full text of the proposed Constitution of the Union of Poland and Czechoslovakia? I found it in Stroński's three-volume “Politics” and this is so crucial that this task spoke straight about giving up Poland's sovereignty as 1 of the political goals of the London government.
Polish politicians in emigration authorities were federalists. They did not mean “a union of independent states” but a union for which associate States renounce sovereignty without any of this.
I am besides a Federalist – like the commander of the Warsaw Uprising Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, socialist Adam Ciołkosz, nationalist Stanisław Stroński. For akin reasons.
Writers love to get excited about “geopolitics”, understood as watching videos about China being and Russia being. They're missing the most important.
Since Charles the large divided his empire into the western, east and central parts, there has been an ongoing war (with short breaks) between the east and western divisions of the central (from its first ruler formerly called Lorraine). Check for yourself: between the Verdun Treaty (843) and 1945 is simply a constant war, with periods of peace lasting up to 50 years.
Since the Verdun Treaty, Europe has already concluded many peace treaties to end this war. Constantian, Wormatian, Westphalian, Viennese, Versal... but no was as permanent as the Treaty of Rome, forming the foundations of the European Union. Give examples of how they disagree.
In the list of 11 authoritative founding fathers as many as 9 came from the erstwhile Lorraine (in the sense of the Verdun Treaty). The another 2 are Churchill and Monnet.
For Spaak, Spinelli, Schuman or Adenauer, the most crucial thing was that their hometowns would no longer be in flames due to the fact that Berlin went to war with Paris (or vice versa). This brought them closer to east European federalists whose motivations were similar.
The countries of our region appeared on the map mainly thanks to the Treaty of Versailles and did not enjoy sovereignty for very long. specified a geopolitical curse – there is no place for soloists between Russia and Germany.
Poland was not entirely alone in September 1939, but our treaties proved to be of small value. A good defence treaty must restrict the sovereignty of the associate States by, for example, subjecting their army to a joint staff.
The Piasian propaganda now frequently speaks of "Europe Schumann", from which the Union has allegedly left. Prime Minister Morawiecki wrote in a letter to EU leaders that he was afraid about "the gradual transformation of the Union into an entity that would halt forming an alliance of free, equal and sovereign states and become one, centrally managed organism".
I'll just quote. Schumann declaration of 1950: “Europe will not emergence immediately or entirely: it will be created by concrete realizations... The placing of coal and steel production under joint management will guarantee the immediate establishment of the first phase of the European Federation.’
From the very beginning, the aim was to gradually transform the "soy of sovereign states" into a federation. Which was the far-reaching goal of Schumann, Spinelli, Churchill – and Arczewski, Sikorski, Bora-Komorowski.
And the aim was not to make a customs union alone, but to make the war between the associate States "not only unthinkable, but besides physically impossible." This cannot be achieved without giving up sovereignty.
Every European border on both sides has any minorities. The only way that the slogan “throws down our countrymen!” does not lead to war – it is to guarantee that everyone has equal rights. That is, in practice, the imposition of common judicial standards.
If Morawiecki proposes the Union "back to its sources", it proposes a return to first federalism. Presenting this to his constituents as a “defence of sovereignty” shows one more time that he has his constituents as a bunch of idiots.
