Ministry of Justice of Poland wants to sue Germany before the CJEU – The Ministry of Justice will ask the government to propose a request to the CJEU against Germany.
Ministry of Justice of Poland wants to sue Germany before the CJEU – The Ministry of Justice will ask the government to propose a request to the CJEU against Germany.
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>This information was provided on Twitter by the RMF FM reporter, Roch Kowalski. As he added, according to the Ministry of Justice, “Germany is breaking the treaty in terms of the politicization of the judiciary and the rules for appointing judges.”
>During Monday’s press conference, Minister Zbigniew Ziobro confirmed that, as the minister of justice, he would ask the Council of Ministers to consider initiating the procedure against Germany under article 259 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. As he recalled, on the basis of this provision, the Czech Republic took Poland to the Court of Justice of the EU for the operation of the mine in Turów.
As Deputy Minister Sebastian Kaleta announced, the Ministry of Justice will recommend that the case be given an accelerated procedure first, and then that the CJEU issue interim measures suspending the challenged provisions. Similarly as it was in the case of Poland.
“It will be a real test of equal standards towards the Tribunal,” said Kaleta.
Irony is dead
“No, you!”, the political game brought to you by PiS.
What exactly is the goal here? Getting laughed out the court room?
Shut the fuck up, Ziobro. Between you and (Minister of “Education”) Czarnek, you have done more to destroy Poland’s place in the world than anyone else post-PRL.
During Monday’s press conference, Zbigniew Ziobro confirmed that as Minister of Justice he will ask the Council of Ministers to consider initiating the procedure against Germany under Article 259 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. As he reminded, on the basis of this provision, the Czech Republic sued Poland to the CJEU for the operation of the mine in Turów.
Article 259 TFEU allows any Member State to bring an action before the Court of Justice of the EU if another EU member is found to have breached one of its Treaty obligations.
– It is in Germany that politicians have a decisive role in the process of nominating judges to the equivalent of the Supreme Court. I will submit a request to the Council of Ministers to consider taking up the legal procedure of suing Germany before the CJEU for violating the EU treaties by politicizing the judiciary – announced the head of the Ministry of Interior.
– If the CJEU states that the participation of politicians in the procedure for the election of judicial authorities in Poland raises doubts related to the independence of future judges, then let us ask what impact this participation has on the independence of future judges in Germany. We have introduced democratic mechanisms in the selection of judges. And this fact has become the main accusation directed against the authorities of the Polish state – said Ziobro.
There should be no ‘equal and more equal’ in the European Union, this applies as much to citizens as to states. If it turned out that the CJEU applies different legal norms and standards to one country and others to another, this would be a very important fact.
In turn, as announced by Deputy Minister Sebastian Kaleta, the Ministry of Justice will recommend that in the first place the case be given an accelerated procedure, and then that the CJEU issue interim measures consisting in suspending the challenged provisions. Similarly as it was in the case of Polish.
“This will be a real test of equal standards for the Court,” Kaleta said.