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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…

Politics

Why Hungary and Poland, and not Italy and France?

Olivier Bault August 5, 2020

Europe - “The ‘systemic threats to the rule of law’ and of democracy may not be where one would think”, and “it will have escaped no one's notice that such power left in the hands of the European institutions can be turned…

Interviews

Tomasz Przesławski (Polish Supreme Court judge): “Many of the current actions of representatives of the legal professions can be seen as a threat to basic legal values”

Olivier Bault January 8, 2020

Interview with Tomasz Przesławski, Polish Supreme Court judge defending the judicial reforms carried out by PiS: "Many of the current actions of representatives of the legal professions can be seen as a threat to basic legal values, causing chaos in the legal…

Politics

Polish democracy defends itself against EU-supported judges

Olivier Bault January 3, 2020

By Olivier Bault. Poland - Parliamentary democracy in Poland defends itself against EU-supported judicial activism. As was to be expected, only two months after Poland’s parliamentary elections, which gave the United Right coalition led by the Law and Justice (PiS) social-conservative party…

Politics

Brussels will remain in conflict with Poland even with a new European Commission

Olivier Bault August 5, 2019

By Olivier Bault. Poland - Together with its fellow Visegrád Group countries, Poland has managed to veto the bid of Dutch socialist Frans Timmermans to become the next President of the European Commission. Although Timmermans is expected to retain a vice-presidency of…

Interviews

Jarosław Gowin: “Western Europe Is Still Imbued With Biases And Misconceptions Regarding Countries Like Poland”

Ferenc Almássy January 25, 2019

Interview with the Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and Higher Education Jarosław Gowin, former Minister of Justice: "Western Europe, for its part, is still impregnated with biases and misconceptions regarding countries like Poland". Poland - Jarosław Gowin has been minister…

Interviews

Jacek Saryusz-Wolski: “The Visegrad Group Demonstrates to Western Europe that an Other Way is Possible”

Olivier Bault January 23, 2019

Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Member of the European Parliament : "The Visegrad Group demonstrates to Western Europe that an other way is possible". In November 2018, as the Visegrád Post covered the 100th anniversary of the recovery of Poland's independence, Olivier Bault met with Jacek…

Society

The Comeback of Administrative Courts in Hungary

Tamás Leskó January 9, 2019

By Tamás Leskó, Hungarian jurist. Hungary - On the day when the act on the increase of the number of legal overtime hours was adopted, another significant legal act was adopted by the Hungarian parliament, namely the one on the new Administrative…

Politics

Polish judges call for the Court of Justice of the EU against the parliamentarian democracy

Olivier Bault October 17, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Poland - The mechanism of the preliminary ruling that allows any court to turn to the Court of Justice of the European Union, is instrumentalized by Polish judges struggling with the reforms of the judicial institution voted by the…

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