Former Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki at CPAC 2025:
"I want the European continent to be great again!"
Make Europe Great Again!
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As a representative of Europe, a continent of great explorers, inventors and industrial revolutions, I want it to be great again. Currently, the continent is in decline and we owe it to our heritage and children to repair it.
Europe's GDP was once larger than the United States', but is now 50% smaller. Industrial production in Germany has fallen, while Poland's has increased. Europe stands at a crossroads and cannot be the weaker partner of the United States.
To rise again, we must abandon the outdated EU development model, as the Franco-German engine has stalled and Brussels cannot replace the real economy. Climate and migration policies have created chaos. If we fail to change course, Europe risks becoming a museum or a colony of Asian powers.
Speaker 0: I stand here in front of you as a representative of Europe, a continent which once shaped the world, and great continent, continent of great explorers and inventors, industrial revolutions, Columbus and Copernicus, Leonardo da Vinci and Nikola Tesla. It was really a great continent, and I want this continent to be great again. Because now this continent is in decline, and we stand on the shoulders of those giants, our herds, and we owe this to them and to our children as JD Vance, vice president said it a couple of hours ago from this place. We owe this to our children to repair the European continent as well. And we have a great past, and we have to fight for a great future, and it is possible.
We have to fight for a great future as well. And now, a couple of numbers, figures, they don't lie. Europe, just twenty five years ago, and Europe's GDP was bigger than than than that one of The United States. Fast forward twenty five years later, it's by 50% smaller than that one of The United States. Industrial production in Germany is 90% of this from the 2015.
By the way, the industrial production of Poland is on the level of 155% of that one from 02/1970. So today, Europe stands at a crossroads. It can rise again or fade into irrelevance. And we have to rise because we cannot be the weaker partner of The United States. The challenges all around us are really great and grave, and we have to cope with them hard and low with The United States.
But to do so, we must abandon the outdated EU development model. The Franco German engine has stalled, and Brussels bureaucracy cannot replace real economy. And climate and migration policy, instead of delivering solutions, have created chaos. If we fail to change course, Europe risk becoming a museum, an open open air museum, you can say, or worse, a colony of Asian powers. That's a real threat.
