European Parliament
Dariusz Maciej Grabowski (NI ).
(PL)
Mr President, the European Union has sided with the bank UniCredito Italiano in its dispute with the Polish Government. In so doing, it has ignored the old Roman principle of
Pacta sunt servanda
– agreements are made to be kept – since UniCredito has not kept its side of the agreement. The Union has ignored the fact that as a result of the bank’s actions, banking services on the Polish market have become monopolised. Essentially, EU officials are protecting the interests and profits of UniCredito Italiano.
Do EU officials wish to prove by means of this attitude that the idea that the European institutions exist to protect consumers, entrepreneurs and competition is a mere platitude, and that all that really counts are the interests of big business? That is a
diktat
that we Polish Members oppose.

