Polish PM hits out at Brussels, claiming it infringes on rights of member states — RT World News
Poland’s prime minister has lashed out with accusations that EU institutions impede on the rights of its member nations following a ruling by the country’s Constitutional Tribunal that Warsaw’s laws reign supreme over Brussels’.
Mateusz Morawiecki, a Polish politician, declared Thursday that he would be speaking in front of the Polish parliament. “we are at a crucial moment, you could say at a crossroads in the EU’s history.”
The test of democracy is underway – will European nations be able to resist the usurpation of some EU institutions before their democratic rights are violated?
Morawiecki’s accusations come as he is due to appear before the European Parliament next week to defend Poland’s case after a landmark court verdict found Warsaw’s constitution took primacy over EU laws.
The inquiry, which had been requested by Morawiecki to determine whether Brussels could stop the country from reorganizing its judiciary, concluded last week that some areas of EU Treaty articles are incompatible with Warsaw’s laws and subordinate to Poland’s constitution.
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It was found that the country has both the legal right to verify the Constitution of EU Laws and also the Court of Justice rulings.
In the aftermath of the landmark ruling, several members of the bloc criticized the verdict. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, vowed that Brussels would exercise all its power to protect its law and that it had sent its experts to examine the verdict “thoroughly and swiftly”Before you take the next step.
Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn meanwhile accused the Polish government of “playing with fire”He stated that the European primacy would be broken if it was. “Europe as we know it…will cease to exist.”
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France’s European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune dubbed the conclusion as an attack against the bloc and that it posed a “de facto risk of an exit”The 27-member bloc.
The Polish PM, however, insisted shortly after the court ruling that Warsaw’s “place is and will be in the European family of nations”He has also accused the opposition of spreading his views. “fake news”Polexit is described as “a lie that aims to weaken the Union.”
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