The EU summit is scheduled to resume no earlier than 2:00 PM, at which time European Council President Charles Michel will present a new proposal regarding the EU's recovery fund. This will be the fourth day of deliberations.

At 7:00 PM, a meeting of the parliamentary health committee will take place, where the first reading of the President's bill on the Medical Fund will be held. Originally, MPs were supposed to address PAD's proposal last week, but the session was postponed.

- I can assure you with absolute sincerity that I do not think of myself as a successor to Jarosław Kaczyński - stated Joachim Brudziński in an interview with Beata Michniewicz on "Trójka's Political Salon".

- It cannot [function, the United Right without Jarosław Kaczyński]. It will crumble. Today, both PiS and the United Right without Jarosław Kaczyński, I consistently repeat, will crumble like a house of cards. Today, the guarantor of the duration of this coalition and also of my own party is the person of our leader - he continued.

- I can say with full responsibility that today PiS, in the political science sense, is not a party that would survive, especially within the structure of the United Right, after a change of leader. This process is still ahead of us, of course it will have to come, but today, from the perspective of certain political tactics, political rationality, it would be something extremely irresponsible if I were to encourage, suggest, or through actions, or accept the actions of those who would want a change of leadership in our camp. This change, obviously, would have to mean the disintegration of our camp - he emphasized.

- Such solutions are nothing new, they are not some idea that has recently appeared in our country. However, they function successfully in various European Union countries. France can be such an example. Therefore, using proven models seems justified. Especially since there are many reservations about the functioning of the media market in Poland. Such excessive engagement and very brutal attacks on President Duda by some media in recent weeks can be an example of this – said Michał Dworczyk on TVP1.

- This is probably the longest summit in history, as it's lasting four days and indeed, there's still no consensus. Over two hundred meetings in various formats have taken place, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is extremely active. The rooms of the Polish delegation are constantly being visited; the doors don't close. They are visited by very many European politicians. Of course, the closest cooperation is happening within the V4 format. There is truly no agreement that this gigantic budget, which is being discussed, as it's over 1.8 trillion euros, sparks immense emotions, and there are no basic agreements on both the allocation of these funds and the oversight of their expenditure. This is one profound, or one of the profound, or serious problems. It concerns the size of the budget that is to be allocated for the rebuilding of Europe after COVID-19 – said Michał Dworczyk on TVP1.

„I am not particularly surprised by this. The elections are over, and now President Kaczyński [and PiS] will carry out their revolution, which is intended to consolidate power and weaken the opposition. This fits perfectly into that intention” – stated European Parliament member Leszek Miller of the European Coalition in an interview with Jedynka radio.

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„The largest EU states, led by the European Commission, have decided that in a completely extra-treaty manner, contrary to the rule of law, they will adopt new rules for spending European money that will give the EC vast, arbitrary, objectively unmeasurable power to block payments measured in billions of euros for those countries where the EC deems the rule of law is being violated. This is, in fact, an immense tool of influence and power that the EC has not possessed until now. No European body has such power over any sovereign state that is part of the European community. The problem is that this so-called rule of law, as we Poles have learned, is being used tendentiously and unilaterally within the framework of political disputes and attacks on Poland from the European Commission,” said Minister Zbigniew Ziobro at a press conference.

"United Poland has proposed that the Polish parliament adopt a resolution that would unambiguously take a stand in defense of actions within the legal sphere, the defense of the rule of law in its literal sense, meaning the defense that as long as there are no treaty changes, we cannot agree to grant the European Commission supranational and unconstitutional powers that would have an enormous impact on the reality of Poland and any other state" - stated Minister Zbigniew Ziobro at a press conference.

“The problem is that such highly subjective double standards can go much, much further if we agree to the proposal presented by the Council and the European Commission. From the definition of the rule of law, you will learn that it is not only about the judiciary, the selection of judges, or the prosecution service, but also about the media, access to abortion, so-called fundamental rights interpreted as the right to same-sex marriage and adoption by such couples” - Minister Zbigniew Ziobro said at a press conference.

- For [the compromise] to also be acceptable to Poland, we must achieve what we have pointed out from the very beginning, meaning the absence of any discretion on the part of EU bodies, EU institutions, regarding the issue of the rule of law primarily, but we are also constantly negotiating issues related to climate - stated Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki at a press briefing in Brussels.

Prime Minister Morawiecki will participate in crucial talks at 4 PM in Brussels with the most important players – the German Chancellor, holding the EU presidency, the President of France, and the prime ministers of the 'frugal' group, including the Netherlands and Denmark. Prime Minister Morawiecki will be accompanied by Viktor Orbán and the Prime Minister of Latvia, Krišjānis Kariņš.

- The art is not in causing a veto and the summit's failure, but in convincing others to support us. This is what the Prime Minister is striving for by making others aware – especially reinforcing the conviction of the V4 and Baltic countries – that this assessment mechanism in the hands of officials can be used politically against other states as well – a close aide to the Prime Minister tells us off the record.

- I have the impression that, apart from all the other troubles we have within the opposition, there's a lack of a forum for leaders of various opposition parties where they can talk and exchange information without feeling uncomfortable about being smarter, dumber, bigger, smaller, right, or wrong, but rather with a common goal in mind, despite all their differences. I would like the Marshal of the Senate, who is, firstly, the marshal of the democratic majority in this chamber, and secondly, was elected thanks to such a soft coalition formed for the Senate – because there was no formal coalition between the parties that created this Senate pact, it wasn't written down anywhere. No one had to renounce their own identity, no one had to argue with anyone – said Michał Kamiński in a conversation with Karolina Lewicka in TOK FM's "Political Interview".

- It seems to me that [the Marshal of the Senate's table] could be such a natural, informal place – Kamiński added.

„We never received an invitation [to the coalition of Polish affairs]. In my opinion, it was campaign courting of Confederation voters, to get them to cast their vote for one candidate or another. We know life. We know how it looks, so we're probably not offended in the end. It was an election campaign” - said Krzysztof Bosak from the Confederation in an interview with Dorota Gawryluk on Polsat News's „Gość Wydarzeń”.

- I also have a big grievance with Szymon Hołownia, because given how much he talks about civic engagement, in my opinion he spoke rather vaguely before the second round of the presidential elections. If he sides with a civic state, he should have supported the candidate who is actually promoting such a model of the state much more strongly. And it is precisely Rafał Trzaskowski who has championed and continues to champion these values. It's a shame that Szymon Hołownia, I believe in his intentions and assurances, but I expected him to say this much more forcefully - stated Jacek Sutryk in an interview with Katarzyna Kolenda-Zaleska on TVN24's "Fakty po faktach".