Friday, October 08, 2021

I Knew Many Poles As A Child and Have Always Admired Them. (Never more so than now!)

Poland kills sacred cow of EU legal primacy.

  • Polish premier Mateusz Morawiecki (c) with European Council president Charles Michel (l) and Slovenian prime minister Janez Janša at the Western Balkan summit in Slovenia this week (Photo: Council of the European Union)

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Poland's controversial Constitutional Tribunal ruled on Thursday (7 October) that parts of EU treaties are incompatible with the Polish constitution, in a major escalation of the rule-of-law dispute between Warsaw and the EU, which could shake the bloc's legal foundation,

"The EU Treaty is subordinate to the constitution in the Polish legal system ... and, like any part of the Polish legal system, it must comply with the constitution," judge Bartłomiej Sochański said, according to Reuters.

"In Poland the highest legal act is the constitution and all European regulations that are in force in Poland ... must comply with the constitution," Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party said after the verdict was announced.

"This also applies to the judiciary and the European Union has nothing to say here," he told reporters.

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