Where It Hurts: Poland Must Pay 1 million Euros PER DAY in Rule-of-Law Row with EU
Thu 10:05 am +01:00, 28 Oct 2021 2
ER Editor: It was expected that Poland would be hurt in its pocketbook over putting its own constitution above that of the EU, but a MILLION A DAY in fines? We wonder how this will go over in Poland, with a population that is generally regarded as loyal to the EU because of historical fears over Russia. When will the tipping point come for the Poles?
See this useful analysis-as-background from this week by Alexander Mercouris of The Duran: More on Poland and the EU: Who’s In the Stronger Position? [VIDEO]
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Where it hurts: Poland must pay 1 million euro PER DAY in rule-of-law row with EU, top European court rules
RT
The European Court of Justice has said on Wednesday that it has ordered Poland to pay a million euro (around $1.2 million) every day until it brings its judicial system in line with European Union standards.
The harsh penalty was “necessary in order to avoid serious and irreparable harm to the legal order of the European Union and to the values on which that Union is founded, in particular that of the rule of law,” the Luxembourg-based court said in its ruling.
The fine comes in response to the controversial decision by Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal, which earlier this month prioritized national laws over those of the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
Warsaw and Brussels have been at odds since the nationalist Law and Justice party came to power in Poland in 2015, strongly opposing the EU’s policies on migration, LGBT rights and climate change, among other things. The bloc has been blaming the current Polish leadership for eroding the checks and balances within the judiciary in the Eastern European country of 38 million as well as trying to take the justice system under political control.
The European Commission is already withholding from Poland a €36-billion grant for post-pandemic rebuilding, the ECJ’s new fine being another attempt by Brussels to bring Warsaw to heel.
Alexander De Croo, the prime minister of Belgium –one of EU’s founding members– also addressed the ongoing dispute with Poland on Wednesday, saying “you can’t pocket all the money but refuse the values.”
He also responded to the recent comments by Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki, who suggested that the EU may well start “a third World War” over its differences with Poland and vowed that his country would defend its rights “with any weapons which are at our disposal” if this happens.
According to De Croo, his Polish counterpart was “playing with fire when waging war with your European colleagues for internal political reasons.”
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Published to The Liberty Beacon from EuropeReloaded.com
Where It Hurts: Poland Must Pay 1 million Euros PER DAY in Rule-of-Law Row with EU
Yep, maybe Russia wasn’t so bad after all.
What a hideous building.I get a strong message that the window? slits are numbers or letters, some kind of code saying something. Its ominous in an abstract way, nothing good could ever come out of that building.