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The conflict between Poland and the EU is getting worse
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The Polish state “has no right to yield to lawlessness,” the Polish minister said, calling the EU’s fines “illegal sanctions.”
Polish Justice Minister and Prosecutor General Zbigniew Zebro said that his country will not pay the fines imposed on it by the European Union court. “Poland cannot and should not pay a single zloty,” Zebro said on Thursday, October 28, at a briefing in Warsaw. According to him, we are talking about both fines related to the judicial reform of Poland and payments related to the mine. Turov on the border with Germany.
The Polish state “has no right to yield to lawlessness,” the Polish minister said, calling the EU’s fines “illegal sanctions.”
Formerly the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg ordered Poland to pay daily fines in the amount of 1 million euros for her refusal to comply with the decisions of the EU court on the reform of the Polish judicial system. The court declared the need to avoid “serious and irreparable damage to the EU’s legal order” and the values underlying it. Among other things, we are talking about the need to terminate the activities of the disciplinary chamber of the Supreme Court. Her work is incompatible with EU norms on the independence and impartiality of the judiciary, the decision says.
Conflict between Brussels and Warsaw
In early October, the Polish Constitutional Court recognized that its legislation took precedence over the laws of the European Union, and called certain provisions of EU legislation incompatible with the Polish constitution. This decision drew harsh criticism from Brussels, the European Commission began to prepare a lawsuit. In response, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki responded by accusing the EU of blackmail.
In April 2020, the European Commission initiated a new investigation against Poland due to the reform of the judicial system in this country. Warsaw is required to bring this system in line with EU standards.
Conflict around the mine Turov
On September 20, the EU court ordered Poland pay 500 thousand euros per day because of the coal mine Turovlocated near the Czech Republic and the German federal state of Saxony. The Czech authorities went to court, demanding that the mine be shut down due to environmental damage. Poland considers the requirement to pay the fine disproportionate.
A source: Russian service DW
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