>As an idea, “dirty remain” has a veneer of respectability. Its Polish proponents argue that everyone else does it, but only Poland is attacked. Polish judges are fond of citing their German counterparts, who have accused the European Court of Justice (ecj) of overstepping the mark in recent years. In such rulings, the medium counts as much as the message. No one doubts the independence of Germany’s constitutional court. No one believes in the independence of Poland’s.
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>The messages are different, too. The German court accused the ecj of exceeding its mandate in approving a programme of bond-buying by the European Central Bank. The Polish court said the country’s constitution trumped fundamental parts of eu law, such as “ever closer union”, a much more sweeping ruling. **The German court was playing with matches; its Polish counterpart doused the eu’s legal system in petrol and deliberately started a fire.**
Is this the second or third time this has been posted here since yesterday? I forget.
I don’t get it, if member states can exclaim they want tighter EU integration, then so too can they exclaim to want less of it, no?
I won’t defend the Polish government. Fact is, they don’t seem to be doing that well in polls as they used to, and by current standing they don’t have a real majority in the senate or the sejm (by one wiki page they have 228+5 by another 228+1 out of 460).
Antagonizing Poland for a government which could easily lose the next election is becoming overly bothersome.
“No one doubts the independence of Germany’s constitutional court. No one believes in the independence of Poland’s.”
That statement is amusing in the light of the German tribunal’s consultations with Merkel disclosed by Die Welt
EU has problems with everything: from borders and energy prices, to its member states.
The Economist, British people trying to deflect attention away from their own disaster exit.
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>As an idea, “dirty remain” has a veneer of respectability. Its Polish proponents argue that everyone else does it, but only Poland is attacked. Polish judges are fond of citing their German counterparts, who have accused the European Court of Justice (ecj) of overstepping the mark in recent years. In such rulings, the medium counts as much as the message. No one doubts the independence of Germany’s constitutional court. No one believes in the independence of Poland’s.
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>The messages are different, too. The German court accused the ecj of exceeding its mandate in approving a programme of bond-buying by the European Central Bank. The Polish court said the country’s constitution trumped fundamental parts of eu law, such as “ever closer union”, a much more sweeping ruling. **The German court was playing with matches; its Polish counterpart doused the eu’s legal system in petrol and deliberately started a fire.**
Is this the second or third time this has been posted here since yesterday? I forget.
I don’t get it, if member states can exclaim they want tighter EU integration, then so too can they exclaim to want less of it, no?
I won’t defend the Polish government. Fact is, they don’t seem to be doing that well in polls as they used to, and by current standing they don’t have a real majority in the senate or the sejm (by one wiki page they have 228+5 by another 228+1 out of 460).
Antagonizing Poland for a government which could easily lose the next election is becoming overly bothersome.
“No one doubts the independence of Germany’s constitutional court. No one believes in the independence of Poland’s.”
That statement is amusing in the light of the German tribunal’s consultations with Merkel disclosed by Die Welt
EU has problems with everything: from borders and energy prices, to its member states.
The Economist, British people trying to deflect attention away from their own disaster exit.