The EU wants a rule of law battle it can win in row with Poland – Polish court’s bombastic ruling rejecting supremacy of EU law has politics at its heart
The EU wants a rule of law battle it can win in row with Poland – Polish court’s bombastic ruling rejecting supremacy of EU law has politics at its heart
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Watching this thing that is the EU that started as a European citizen open borders, shared trade policy, and mutual defense effort turn into what it is today is depressing. Supplanting foreigners into countries the local populations don’t agree with, demanding sovereignty over host law and now trying to stand up a military on top of the individual sovereign militaries lol. Time to disband and start over. You’ve lost the plot.
> on the subject of Warsaw’s constitutional court ruling, which bombastically asserted the primacy of the Polish constitution over EU law this month.
I absolutely condemn our governments judicial “reforms” and hate how they constantly pick fights with the EU, BUT this is the only ruling the CC could have made. The Constitution clearly states in Article 8, that it is the supreme law in Poland. This has been the case since we joined.
If the ruling party of poland wants to leave the EU then go ahead. Since the polish people voted for you, you should have their support. If you act against their wishes you have broken your promisses and will pay for it.
EU should ask every constitutional court to rule on supremacy of EU law and be done with it. No finger pointing anymore.
It’s time for an European Constitution again.
How people quickly support the case law of EU Law primacy is weird.
It’s a case law. Decided by a bunch of judges you can’t name and didn’t vote for and in which none of your country elected officials have any say.
On the other hand is a democratically adopted Constitution.
It would be different if EU Law primacy was in the treaties signed by your elected officials, but it’s not the case here.
Since when did we decide democracy is not that important after all ? Why is it a problem for Poland but not when France does it ? (On the constitutional court website, right now, it’s written the Constitution comes first).
Constitutions define Justice within a territory. Extra constitutional justice makes no sense.
We should have a referendum about this in each EU country.
From outside, this seems comical – “EU law” should trump the Polish constitution, but not the French or German constitutions. And there are French and German scholars lining up to back this position, without a hint of self-awareness about it. “Our case is *completely different*” they argue! Any outside observer has to conclude this is about making sure Germany and France run the show. As Chirac said – they missed a good opportunity to keep quiet.
The whole thread is misinformation from people that probably haven’t even set their foot into law 101