“The [European] Commission uses rule-of-law reports as a tool against conservative governments, while ignoring or even supporting the violations committed by Donald Tusk’s Polish left-liberal coalition,” Marcin Romanowski, former Polish deputy minister of justice, now in exile in Hungary, has said.
“The Commission’s biased actions undermine the sovereignty of member states,” he added.
Romanowski claims that the European Commission abandoned its role as guardian of the Treaties long ago. Along with other EU institutions, it has turned EU instruments into tools for appropriating new powers through creative legal reinterpretation and, increasingly, through financial and political blackmail.
The Polish MP was granted political asylum in Hungary following politically motivated persecution in his home country. Since then, he has taken on a new role in Budapest, where he currently serves as director of the Hungarian–Polish Institute of Freedom.
