A Monday, April 29th meeting of European Union commissioners approved plans to move ahead to terminate the seven-year-long ‘rule-of-law’ vendetta against Poland, The European Conservative has learned. The matter will be referred to member states at the European Council for final approval in the days ahead.
A classified document reveals that European Commission Vice-President Věra Jourová will soon write to the European Council at the behest of the EU’s Justice Department (DG JUST), citing findings that show “the clear risk of a serious breach no longer exists” regarding the rule of law in Poland. Selectively, this ignores recent crackdowns on the opposition by the country’s new rainbow coalition government, led by former Council President Donald Tusk.
In 2017, the European Commission initiated rule-of-law harassment against the then Polish Law and Justice (PiS) government over alleged conservative interference in the nation’s judiciary. Subsequent legal wrangling resulted in billions of euros of EU funding being withheld from Warsaw. This programme now looks set to be shelved, according to the leaked report.
A change of government late last year produced a pro-EU coalition, resulting in a change of tune from Brussels, with the EU unlocking €137 billion in funding. In tandem, Eurocrats quietly demanded the country purge right-wing members of the judiciary loyal to the former ruling party.
The leaked document confirms the Commission’s intention to totally drop the rule-of-law case against Poland under Article 7 of the Treaty of the EU, specifically thanking the new Tusk government for accepting the “primacy of EU law” and being “committed to a full implementation of the rulings of the Court of Justice of the EU and of the European Court of Human Rights concerning judicial independence.”
Almost immediately after the EU and German-sponsored Tusk takeover of the country, Poland has been in a political crisis as the new regime jailed opposition lawmakers and even sent riot police to shut down the nation’s national broadcaster, TVP.
Concern over the EU’s overreach in Poland—prompting claims that the EU is helping to create a ‘banana republic’ there—is front and centre in the upcoming June European parliamentary elections. Conservatives are pinning their hopes on MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski preventing Tusk from capturing the post of Poland’s Commissioner. They are also encouraging the country’s President, Andrzej Duda, to become a constitutional barrier to increasing liberal dominance.
Subjugating nation states to EU legal primacy is a key ideological and strategically important goal of the euro federalist project. Brussels is now turning its attention to Slovakia’s new populist government as the latest target of ‘rule-of-law’ proceedings.
The European Commission responded to media inquiries saying that while they couldn’t comment on any leak they “stand ready to support” the new Tusk government in any future reforms.”
