- At that European Council meeting, which I remember very well, Chancellor Merkel and President Macron, and the Chancellor of Austria, and all those who usually played in the same orchestra as the Chancellor, were urging us to listen to Putin, to yield to Putin, that it was necessary to cooperate very closely with Putin, that President Biden had accepted the functioning of Nord Stream II just a few months earlier. "What do you Poles want, why are you rebelling at all?" - said Mateusz Morawiecki during a Q&A session.

- Indeed, it was I who blocked the talks between Putin and the European Council at that level. Talks that were in fact intended to lead to an even deeper dependence of Western Europe, and with it, unfortunately, also Poland and Central Europe, on the Russian Federation. - Morawiecki continued.