– The memo, which journalists recently obtained, a memo from a conversation between Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Chancellor Merkel from March 11, 2011, is scandalous. This is a matter of fact, this memo reveals the behind-the-scenes conversations and relations between the Polish government and the German government, and the nature of Donald Tusk's relationships. During the conversation, which took place in 2011, the Chancellor suggested strengthening Europe's global competitiveness. As stated in this document, it would be advisable, among other things, to link certain socio-economic changes to a given country's retirement age, including its demographic situation – stated Rafał Bochenek at a press briefing.

– PO politicians said before the elections [in 2011] that they did not see the need to raise the retirement age. It was after this conversation between Donald Tusk and Chancellor Merkel that, a few months later, they presented a bill that stipulated raising the retirement age to 67, for both women and men – he continued.

– This is the difference in policy-making, the policy that was conducted until 2015 and the one that is being conducted now by the Law and Justice (ZP) camp under the leadership of our leader, Prime Minister Kaczyński. The era of calls from Berlin, the era of calls from Moscow has ended. It will not be the case that any politician in Poland will make decisions at the expense of the interests of Polish citizens based on external interests, certain external pressures, because everything indicates that the retirement reform was previously consulted and agreed upon to some extent with a representative of the German government. Poles did not know about this, they were not informed. It was all done behind closed doors, in the privacy of offices, and they found out about it when the bill was submitted to the Sejm and was gallantly passed by PO and also PSL – added the PiS spokesperson.