Sikorski’s ministry summoned the Hungarian ambassador on Friday morning.
“We take into account the choice to grant political asylum to Marcin Romanowski, who is needed underneath a European arrest warrant, to be an act hostile to the Republic of Poland and opposite to the elementary ideas binding the member states of the European Union,” the international ministry mentioned in a press release.
“Justifying this determination with alleged political persecution is an insult to residents and Polish authorities,” it added.
Romanowski, an MP with the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) occasion, faces 11 expenses in Poland for misuse of public funds when he was deputy justice minister from 2019 to 2023. Over the summer season, the Polish parliament lifted his immunity, and on Thursday a Warsaw court docket issued a European arrest warrant for him.
In a video message on X posted Thursday, Romanowski accused Polish Prime Donald Tusk and Justice Minister Adam Bodnar of “illegally usurping energy” and of improperly prosecuting him. Tusk’s authorities has launched a marketing campaign to prosecute officers from the earlier authorities accused of wrongdoing.
When PiS was in energy from 2015 to 2023 it cultivated shut relations with Orbán’s Fidesz occasion, as each bumped into hassle with the European Commission over allegations they had been backsliding on the bloc’s democratic ideas. Relations between Poland and Hungary have turn into more and more hostile after Tusk and his centrist coalition defeated PiS in late 2023.
