WARSAW

Poland’s foreign minister on Saturday sharply criticized Elon Musk after the X platform owner posted that the EU should be disbanded – a message that quickly drew praise from former Russian president and current Security Council Vice Chair Dmitry Medvedev, posting simply: “Exactly.” Radoslaw Sikorski denounced the exchange as “reckless and dangerous,” warning that narratives undermining the EU serve interests hostile to Europe.

“As if anyone still had any doubts about who benefits from all this anti-EU talk about sovereignty,” he wrote on X. “Those who want to profit from spreading hatred and those who want to conquer Europe.”

The foreign minister’s remarks came just after the European Commission announced a €120 million ($140 million) fine against Musk for violations of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – the first such penalty issued under the bloc’s updated online platform rules. Regulators cited failures in transparency surrounding the platform’s “blue X” tag, inadequacies in its advertising repository, and insufficient access for researchers.

Sikorski’s intervention underscored growing concern in Warsaw that hostile actors, including Russia, are exploiting anti-EU sentiment to weaken European cohesion. His comments also echoed a broader message delivered earlier in the day by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who stressed the importance of transatlantic unity amid rising geopolitical tensions.

Tusk called for Europe and the US to reinforce their partnership, arguing that democratic alliances must stand firm in the face of external attempts to divide them.

Against that backdrop, Sikorski framed Musk and Medvedev’s exchange as a vivid example of how inflammatory rhetoric can align – intentionally or not – with the interests of those seeking to destabilize Europe.