Poland’s Supreme Court judged last week that EU laws are less important than Polish laws. This means that Poland can in principle ignore European rules.
Tens of thousands of protesters
It sparked protests across the country this weekend. Opposition leader Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister, had called for it. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the capital Warsaw and many other places. They waved Polish and European flags and shouted: ‘We are Europe’ and ‘we stay’.
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‘This is our Europe’
Opposition politicians, activists and artists took part in the demonstrations. During the demonstration in the Polish capital Warsaw, Wanda Traczyk-Stawska, a 94-year-old war veteran who fought against the Germans during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, spoke. “This is our Europe and no one is going to take us out of it,” she told Reuters news agency.
The demonstrations were covered on state television, but reporters said it was ‘a protest against the Polish constitution’.
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Opposition leader Tusk, who was also European president, accuses the ruling party of wanting to lead the country out of the EU. “Poland’s place is in Europe,” Tusk told protesters in Warsaw. “We will win because there are more of us.”
‘Polexit’
He warned of the consequences of a so-called ‘Polexit’ by the Eastern European country and called on the demonstrators to defend a ‘European Poland’.
With the court ruling, Poland is one step closer to exiting the European Union, explained European Parliamentarian Jeroen Lenaers (CDA) last week. to RTL News from. “Poland is drifting further and further away from the course of the European Union. Enough is enough, the Polish government has lost credibility with this statement.”
The Polish government has been lying down for a long time on a collision course with Brussels, including attacks on LGBT people, journalists and judges.
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