{"id":38767,"date":"2019-03-21T06:15:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T05:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=38767"},"modified":"2019-03-21T06:28:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T05:28:53","slug":"a-polish-mep-we-want-to-defend-christian-values-together-with-vox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/03\/21\/a-polish-mep-we-want-to-defend-christian-values-together-with-vox\/","title":{"rendered":"A Polish MEP: \"We want to defend Christian values together with Vox\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday there was a meeting in Warsaw between representatives of two parties that are characterized by their opposition to political correctness: the Spanish Vox and the Polish Prawo i Sprawiedliwo\u015b\u0107 (PiS).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/11\/11\/poland-and-spain-the-historical-links-between-two-great-nations-of-europe\/\">Poland and Spain: the historical links between two great Nations of Europe<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/03\/23\/poland-and-hungary-stand-out-from-eu-support-for-abortion-and-gender-ideology-at-the-un\/\">Poland and Hungary Stand Out from EU Support for Abortion and Gender Ideology at the UN<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>Abascal qualifies Poland as \"admirable nation in the defense of his freedom\"<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, traveled to Poland accompanied by Iv\u00e1n Espinosa de los Monteros, the vice-secretary of international relations of Vox, who knows the Slavic country well, since he was working there for a few years. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Santi_ABASCAL\/status\/1108122427689787393\">On Tuesday night, Abascal announced his presence in Poland<\/a>, calling it <em>\"<strong>an admirable nation in defense of their freedom and national identity.<\/strong> A nation that has survived Nazi and Communist totalitarianism and has banned both, rightly so, because millions of Poles, Jews and Catholics were victims of totalitarianism.\"<\/em> That same night, through its website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polskieradio.pl\/5\/1222\/Artykul\/2280788,W-srode-spotkanie-Jaroslawa-Kaczynskiego-z-liderem-hiszpanskiej-partii-Vox\">the Polish Radio gave news of the meeting scheduled the next day between Abascal and the president of the PiS, Jaros\u0142aw Kaczy\u0144ski<\/a>: <em>\"The main theme of the talks will be the future alliance and cooperation in the European Parliament\"<\/em>, the station said citing Tomasz Por\u0119ba as source, a leader of the ruling party in that country. During the visit <strong>the Vox's leaders were accompanied by the Polish MEP of the PiS Kosma Z\u0142otowski<\/strong>, who on 6 March was the host of Javier Ortega Smith, general secretary of Vox, at the conference he gave in the European Parliament on the separatist coup in Catalonia.<\/p>\n<p><big>Vox's leaders were received by the Polish Government<\/big><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday morning, Abascal and Espinosa de los Monteros were received at the Prime Minister's Chancellery, so <strong>the Vox's leaders' journey acquired the characteristics of a high-level institutional visit.<\/strong> There they met with Adam Lipi\u0144ski, Secretary of State of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, and \u0141ukasz Schreiber, Secretary of State responsible for relations with the Cortes. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LukaszSchreiber\/status\/1108315538873298946\">Schreiber<\/a>, the meeting was also attended by Marek Suski, head of the Political Cabinet of the Prime Minister of Poland, and the aforementioned MEP Kosma Z\u0142otowski. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voxespana.es\/santiago-abascal-se-reune-en-polonia-con-miembros-del-gobierno-en-una-visita-institucional\">As noted by Vox<\/a>, in that meeting they <strong><em>\"have addressed issues such as the new reformulation of Europe, the recovery of the values \u200b\u200bon which the concept of Europe was founded and the importance that should have Nation-States in the continent.\"<\/em><\/strong> Some issues in which PiS and Vox defend very similar approaches and equally critical to the current drift of the EU.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7870\/47377899432_23367cc2e5_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">The leaders of Vox in their meeting at the national headquarters of PiS in Warsaw, this Wednesday (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pisorgpl\/status\/1108356835105558528\">Prawo i Sprawiedliwo\u015b\u0107<\/a>)<\/div>\n<p><big>PiS wants to \"defend Christian values together with Vox\"<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Following the meeting at the Prime Minister's Chancellery, <strong>the Vox's leaders were received at the Foreign Ministry Chancellery<\/strong>, where they met with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Policy, Szymon Szynkowski vel S\u0119k. Vox has indicated that they dealt with him <em>\"issues related to the future of the European Union, the control of illegal immigration, the relationship with NATO and the defense of nation-states.\"<\/em> <strong>Finally, at the end of the morning, Abascal and Espinosa de los Monteros went to the national headquarters of PiS<\/strong>, on Nowogrodzka Street, where Jaros\u0142aw Kaczy\u0144ski received them. MEP Z\u0142otowski, who also attended this meeting, said: <em>\"<strong>We want to defend Christian values \u200b\u200bjointly with Vox in the European Parliament<\/strong>, and strengthen the role of national states in the EU.\"<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Santi_ABASCAL\/status\/1108388734427455488\">Abascal's assessment<\/a> was very similar: <strong><em>\"Weaving alliances to defend the only possible Europe, based on respect for the sovereignty of its States and Christian cultural roots.\"<\/em><\/strong> As it seems, there is a good harmony between PiS and Vox.<\/p>\n<p><big>The options of Vox if it wants to join a group in the European Parliament<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Prawo i Sprawiedliwo\u015b\u0107 (Law and Justice) is part of the <strong>Group of European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), which currently consists of 74 MEPs from various right-wing parties.<\/strong> At the moment, the parties that contribute the most MEPs to this group are PiS and the British Conservative Party, both with 19 representatives. <strong>The main obstacle to the possible integration of Vox into the ECR would be the Flemish separatist party Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie (N-VA)<\/strong>, which has been supporting the Catalan separatists. One of the deputies of the N-VA, Mark Demesmaeker, <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/politica\/2019\/03\/06\/actualidad\/1551881870_746930.html\">joined<\/a> the separatists of BNG and ERC in the protest they organized against the aforementioned conference offered by Javier Ortega in Brussels. <strong>The other option is the Group of the Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENL)<\/strong>, led by the French National Rassemblement of Marine Le Pen. However, as in the ECR, <strong>in the ENL there is another Flemish separatist party, the Vlaams Belang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vlbelang\/status\/647389752929427456\">which also supports Catalan separatism.<\/a> It is very unlikely that Vox was admitted to the group of the European People's Party (EPP), its main competitor in Spain, the Popular Party, is a member of this group. <strong>Another possibility is that Vox puts the exclusion of the Flemish separatists as a condition for joining the ECR.<\/strong> Right now the N-VA has 4 MEPs, but according to some polls, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertaddigital.com\/internacional\/europa\/2019-02-18\/el-parlamento-europeo-da-a-vox-seis-escanos-segun-los-ultimos-sondeos-1276633319\/\">Vox could get 6 seats in the European Parliament<\/a>, which would allow it to position itself as the third ECR party.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>(Main photo: Vox. An image of the meeting that the leaders of Vox held in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland this Wednesday morning 20 in the morning)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday there was a meeting in Warsaw between representatives of two parties that are characterized by their opposition to political correctness: the Spanish Vox and the Polish Prawo i Sprawiedliwo\u015b\u0107 (PiS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10373,10429],"tags":[12466,12465,12461,12462,12393,12463,10370,10723,2169,11462,7535],"class_list":["post-38767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","category-second","tag-adam-lipinski","tag-lukasz-schreiber","tag-ivan-espinosa-de-los-monteros","tag-jaroslaw-kaczynski","tag-kosma-zlotowski","tag-marek-suski","tag-poland","tag-prawo-i-sprawiedliwosc-pis","tag-santiago-abascal-conde","tag-spain","tag-vox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}