Posted on 02/20/2017 5:23:15 PM PST by Olog-hai
Poland’s Foreign Ministry said Monday it has written to the European Union in response to the bloc’s recommendations on rule of law in the country, the latest step in a standoff between Warsaw’s populist government and EU officials concerned about weakening democratic standards.
Most of the EU’s concerns center on steps by the ruling Law and Justice party that have weakened the Constitutional Tribunal’s ability to act as a check on executive power.
EU Vice-President Frans Timmermans said last year that he worried about a “systemic risk” to the rule of law in Poland. In December he sent non-binding recommendations to Poland, giving the country two months to reply. The deadline was Tuesday. […]
The ministry also accused Timmermans of trying to marginalize Poland and violate its national sovereignty. …
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A pole vault was my prediction as to the next member to leave
Timmermans? Juncker’s sidekick? How about first taking the beam out of their own eye. Former Soviet dissident Bukovsky thinks EU is modeled after Soviet experiment, with the goal to replace national identity with an imaginary one: the European. And it’s hardly democratic, for whatever rule of law they believe in. Says Bukovsky: “I think that the European Union, like the Soviet Union, cannot be democratized. Gorbachev tried to democratize it and it blew up.” EU’s rule of law has no grounding in any people or history.
Bukovsky made some very accurate comparisons between the EU institutions and the Soviet ones: the Commission to the Politburo and the Parliament to the Supreme Soviet particularly. He said the EU could become “a dictatorship in no time”.
There are also those clauses in the EU treaties having to do with “respect for the charter of the United Nations”. That charter is a clone of the 1936 USSR constitution. Even more parallels with the USSR, and an eye to a global reach.
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