Posted on 05/18/2016 9:09:16 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The European Union expressed concern Wednesday about the rule of law in Poland and warned that it will take action by next week unless Warsaw makes progress on fixing the problem.
The EU's executive Commission has been holding informal talks with Warsaw since November amid concerns about the conservative government's respect for Poland's Constitutional Court and the way judges are appointed.
The Commission said if the tribunal "is prevented from fully ensuring an effective constitutional review, there can be no effective scrutiny of compliance with fundamental rights of legislative acts."
Warsaw has until Monday to respond.
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FU, EU
Time for a Polexit.
The EU is taking about the rule of law????
The EU is surely writing its own epitaph with its incessant demands for more and more power.
Invade?!
I support Brexit in the UK, the Eurosceptic/Euroskeptic Dveri-DSS Coalition in Serbia, and Donald Trump here at home!!!!
Those girls better shut up before Poland smacks them silly.
Lawfare. I’m thinking they’re being punished for bot opening their borders.
Time for Visegradexit.
The PO is crying to the EU buddies because the Polish voters voted their asses out. The PiS is doing the will of the Polish electorate.
This is what happens when you enable despots.
Poland will just leave the EU is all. I imagine much of Eastern Europe will follow them, too.
No doubt. Hungary is on their hit list too for the same reason. Even more so because PM Viktor Orban is so outspoken about the Islamic invasion.
The problem with any form of federalism is that when there’s arbitrary government it never ends.
And Germany just won a tank competition. This is like the prelude to WW-II all over again.
and NATO is providing security cover for the steady leftist social-engineering to death of Europe.
“Poland has come under strong international criticism since the conservative Law and Justice took power in November and moved to exert its influence over the Constitutional Tribunal and public broadcasters. Critics say both moves undermine the tenets of Western democracy.”
Come to the US, please.
Screw the EU, a fetid decaying cancer in what used to be a cluster of worthwhile cultures.
Iran dropping a 1-megaton bomb on Brussels would be a mercy killing.
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