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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…

Politics

Polish judges at the ECHR: power struggle between the Council of Europe and Poland

Partenaire January 26, 2023

Originally published on the website of the European Center for Law and Justice on 24 January 2023. In the coming days, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is due to elect the Polish judge who will sit on the European Court…

Interviews

Janez Janša: “The political processes in Europe turned away from democracy”

Ferenc Almássy October 6, 2022

Interview with Janez Janša, former Prime Minister of Slovenia and leader of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka, SDS): "The political processes in Europe over the past decade and a half turned away from democracy." Janez Janša has been one 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…

Politics

Conflict of jurisdiction between Brussels and the EU’s East getting nasty (Part 3)

Olivier Bault January 12, 2022

Hungarian Constitutional Court says national authorities must make up for EU inaction on immigration — Part 1: Warsaw demands EU treaties be complied with and refuses to pay fines imposed by the ECJ Part 2: EU case law vs national constitution: rulings…

Politics

Poland – Open warfare between president of supreme audit institution and Morawiecki government

Olivier Bault August 13, 2021

Poland – The conflict between the President of the Polish Supreme Audit Office (Najwyższa Izba Kontroli, NIK) – Poland’s highest audit institution – and the Morawiecki government continues to escalate, now with a request for a waiver of Marian Banaś’s immunity. “This…

Politics

The European Commission has just issued an ultimatum to Poland. Will it do the same to France?

Olivier Bault July 22, 2021

Poland – The European Commission has given Poland until 16 August to suspend its Supreme Court’s new Disciplinary Chamber, failing which it will again refer the matter to the ECJ to apply a daily fine. The financial penalty will increase with each…

Society

Ideological disqualification versus argument: the Hungarian case

Simon-Pál Schümmer July 13, 2021

Hungary – The Hungarian law on paedophilia and the protection of children concerning sexuality, which was passed by the unicameral Országház (Hungarian parliament) on 15 June, has been written about extensively and has caused heated debate. There have been countless reactions from…

Society

An Austrian tribunal call into question PCR tests

La Rédaction April 3, 2021

Austria – Following a complaint lodged by the FPÖ (Austrian populist party), the administrative tribunal of Vienna has ruled on 24 March that PCR tests could not be considered as reliable way of diagnosing an illness or the level of contagiousness of…

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

ECJ encourages Polish judges to rebel against parliamentary democracy and to recognize only its own authority

Olivier Bault March 5, 2021

For the second time in a short while, a decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has led to a referral to the Polish Constitutional Tribunal, which will be asked to define the limits of national sovereignty. Poland - The Polish…

Politics

The European Commission continues its offensive against Polish judicial reforms

Olivier Bault February 3, 2021

Poland - On January 27, the European Commission announced that it had moved to the second stage of the infringement procedure against Poland regarding the Disciplinary Chamber created within the Supreme Court as part of the reforms of the judiciary introduced by…