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EU-supported judges vs parliamentary sovereignty in Poland

Partenaire July 15, 2023

Using financial blackmail against the net beneficiaries of the EU budget in former Eastern Europe, EU institutions are gradually imposing the principle of primacy of European Court of Justice rulings over the EU-27's national constitutions. An article published originally on Sovereignty.pl. To…

Interviews

Grégor Puppinck: “If Poland chooses a liberal government, it will undergo a cultural revolution”

Sébastien Meuwissen March 20, 2023

Interview with Grégor Puppinck, Director of the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ): “If Poland chooses a liberal government, the country will undergo an Irish-style cultural revolution. This would mean a cultural reversal and a big shift towards an excessively liberal…

News

Environmentalists complain to Brussels about the Czech–Polish agreement on the Turów mine

The Editorial Board October 28, 2022

Poland / Czechia / Germany - German and Czech environmental organizations – Greenpeace, Bund Sachsen, and Sousedský spolek Uhelná (a local environmental group) – have sent a complaint to the European Commission this week against the agreement reached at the beginning of…

Sovereignty.pl

Sovereignty or money: Poland is being targeted by “federals”

Partenaire June 2, 2022

This article was published online by Sovereignty.pl on 25 May 2022, and is a translation of an article published by Do Rzeczy. The alleged defenders of the “rule of law” are in fact very flexible in their approach to this term and…

News

Turów mine: Morawiecki and Fiala have struck an agreement

The Editorial Board February 8, 2022

Czechia/Poland – Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki travelled to Prague on 3 February to take part in the final phase of talks on the conflict between Poland and Czechia over the Polish open-pit mine in Turów, close to the German and Czech…

Politics

Contrasting reactions reveal real stakes in conflict between ECJ and Polish Constitutional Court

Olivier Bault July 19, 2021

Poland – The major significance of the rulings delivered between 13 and 15 July by the European Court of Justice and the Polish Constitutional Court is not lost on anyone in Poland. Outside of Poland, few media outlets seem to understand what…

Politics

Polish Constitutional Court denying ECJ right to extend its own powers

Olivier Bault July 16, 2021

Poland – Can the EU extend the scope of its competences, without member states having a say, through the decisions of the European Court of Justice? That was the question the Polish Constitutional Court had to answer when it considered, on Wednesday…

Politics

Towards a federal and uniform Europe with the “rule of law” mechanism

Olivier Bault May 24, 2021

Poland – Polish media reported last week that the European Parliament had asked the European Court of Justice to speed up the examination of Poland’s and Hungary’s appeal against the rule of law mechanism adopted at the EU summit in December. This…

Society

Are media freedom and pluralism really under threat in Poland?

Olivier Bault March 19, 2021

Poland - On Wednesday, March 10, the European Parliament held a plenary debate on “Government attempts to silence free media in Poland, Hungary and Slovenia”. That discussion had been announced a week earlier on the European Parliament’s website, in a newsletter titled…

Magyar Nemzet

One more word on rule of law

Partenaire March 15, 2021

This article has been published online by the Magyar Nemzet on March 14, 2021. A concept idolized by the left is now an arbitrary political too. Though Hungary was caught in the left-wing crossfire in the European Union near the end of…

Politics

The European Commission’s attack on the reform of the justice system in Poland: summary, chronology and challenges

The Editorial Board July 15, 2020

Poland - Tensions between Brussels and Warsaw over the independence of the Polish judiciary have been ongoing since the end of 2015. They began immediately after the parliamentary elections won by the Law and Justice Party (PiS) in October 2015. In December…

Politics

Eurocrats’ obsession with Poland and Hungary remains strong even in a time of unprecedented pan-European crisis

Olivier Bault May 21, 2020

European Union - Even in a time of unprecedented crisis, with a pandemic raging and economic depression looming, some in Brussels will not take a pause in their attacks against Hungary’s and Poland’s conservative governments. The unnecessary “concerns” expressed by members of…