Verbatim report of proceedings

Tuesday, 6 July 2021 - Strasbourg

Foreign interference in democratic processes (debate)

  Dominik Tarczyński (ECR). – Madam President, what a festival of hypocrisy again in the European Parliament. We have this discussion, Madam President and Mr High Representative, if you have a moment, about foreign interference and we can hear again another accusation against Poland, against Hungary, from liberals and from the left. It’s the same thing which happened in America when Mr Trump was accused of Russian collusion. The whole world knows that this is not true. The whole world knows that was fake news, there was no collusion and now Poland and Hungary are called Putin’s friends.

At the same time, liberals and the left who are accusing us, are inviting those who are financed by post-Soviet states, and recently arrested in Poland, Mr K – his name has to be withheld from the Polish media according to Polish privacy law. He had been arrested because he was the one who is accused of money laundering and he was the one who was the representative of Open Dialogue Foundation invited to the European Parliament by liberals. So if we do not want these kind of accusations and discussions, please do not invite people like Mr K, who is from the Open Dialogue Foundation.