Polish President Karol Nawrocki has backed US President Donald Trump’s criticism of Europe’s approach to climate change and migration he made at the UN General Assembly.
Nawrocki addressed the UN General Assembly in New York yesterday, the same day Trump spoke for nearly an hour criticising the UN and Europe’s policies on migration and climate change.
The US President said it was time to end the “failed experiment of open borders” and claimed UN predictions over climate change were the “greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”.
Trump called on countries to protect their borders and expel foreigners, accused the UN of leading a “globalist migration agenda” and told national leaders that the world body was “funding an assault on your countries”.
Addressing European leaders, he accused them of “destroying your heritage” and of allowing international migration because of misplaced “political correctness”.
His message to Europe was: “It’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders. You have to end it now … Your countries are going to hell.
“If you don’t stop people that you’ve never seen before, that you have nothing in common with, your country is going to fail,” Trump said.
“I’m the President of the United States but I worry about Europe. I love Europe, I love the people of Europe. And I hate to see it being devastated by energy and immigration, that double-tailed monster that destroys everything in its wake.”
Trump, who later in a post on his Truth Social platform backed Europe over its support for Ukraine, said at the UN that it was “embarrassing” that some European states were purchasing oil and gas from Russia when opposing its invasion of Ukraine.
Nawrocki backed Trump.
“Yes, I agree with President Donald Trump that in recent years, what we as Poles have warned against, Europe has descended into ideological madness, which led to bad decisions regarding migration as well as green madness and the Green Deal, which are destroying industry as well as agriculture,” he said.
During his election campaign in the spring, Nawrocki consistently argued against the European Union migration pact and the EU Green Deal.
In his speech to the UN General Assembly, Nawrocki also recalled how Poland and Trump had warned western Europe about the dangers of financing Russia.
“Yes, the same Europe, our friends and our partners in the EU, for many years they subsidised the Russian Federation by buying cheap Russian gas.
“We in Poland and Central Europe know all this and we are always happy when the leaders of Western European countries learn from this and listen to our voices,” added the Polish President.
Earlier in September, Nawrocki visited Trump in the White House, which produced assurances from Trump that US troops will remain in Poland cementing an already close relationship between the two countries.
Poland is regarded by the US administration as a model ally because it has stopped importing gas and oil from Russia, has the highest spend on defence and 4.5 per cent of GDP in NATO.
In addition, Warsaw has been signing major arms contracts for US supplies of F-35 fighter planes, Abrams tanks, Apache and Black Hawk helicopters, HIMARS rocket launchers and Patriot missile defence systems.
