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OPINION - EU challenges Poland on its independence
Washington Examiner ^ | 01 November 2021 | Dan Hannan, Contributor

Posted on 11/01/2021 1:16:28 AM PDT by blueplum

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki calls it “World War III” — an initiation of hostilities by the European Union to which his government will respond by blocking all business in Brussels. Strong language, you might think. Then again, if World War I and World War II taught Poles anything, it was the value of national independence.

The dispute between the EU and Poland is about sovereignty, pure and simple. Can a country be in the EU and remain self-governing? Eurocrats say it cannot, and the signs are that they will get their way...

...Poland’s judges do not deny that EU institutions have primacy in the specific fields ceded to Brussels under the EU’s treaties. Their objection, rather, is to the doctrine that European law is superior to national constitutions. And here, the EU is on much weaker ground than is generally supposed, for that doctrine is not to be found anywhere in the treaties....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: eu; europeanunion; france; germany; mateuszmorawiecki; nato; nullification; poland; russia; soverienty

1 posted on 11/01/2021 1:16:28 AM PDT by blueplum
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In the 1980s/1990s, there were thirty-odd things which you needed an EU-device to correct or revolutionize commerce in Europe. The problem is...once the thirty-odd things were fixed/resolved....the EU then lingered and started to fix things which weren’t on the list before. They are now working to create new problems.

It probably would help to send the whole EU congregation home every 90 days for 3-months of meeting with citizens of their country.


2 posted on 11/01/2021 1:54:05 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: blueplum

Somewhere Sobieski nods his head.


3 posted on 11/01/2021 2:18:58 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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To: pepsionice

“...then lingered and started to fix things which weren’t on the list before. They are now working to create new problems.”

The EU was the subject of your statement above and I’m pretty sure you realize it is a universal truth about unrestrained government throughout time. It depends on how you measure such things in US history as to when government “started to fix things” which were not previously counted as problems while creating new problems. I believe a strong case could made that many of the Founders remaining alive in the early 19th Century were not happy with the performance of their creation.


4 posted on 11/01/2021 3:17:17 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: blueplum

Poland, Hungary and the rest of the Eastern Europeans have so far been very smart. They have taken the EU’s cash but refused to surrender their national sovereignty or allowed the EU to bully them. So long as they stick together and back each other up, it will be very difficult for the Brussels bureaucrats to accomplish their dictatorial ambitions.


5 posted on 11/01/2021 3:18:05 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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This really leaves a queasy feeling in my gut. The first is that Poland kind of was the straw for WWII, but also the whole Beast in the Revelation gets rid of three rulers to cement his rule.

Just too like the story for my tastes.

Even so, Come, Lord Jesus!


6 posted on 11/01/2021 4:34:33 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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The EU, another useless leftist organization, like the Democrats and the UN... 🤓


7 posted on 11/01/2021 5:15:49 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP conventional)
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To: blueplum

The EU was created to eliminate the various nations, their boundaries, their Christian-based culture, their Whiteness, and to replace them with a powerful government, much as the US federal government, that would not be Christian at all, nor White.

It’s working in some areas, not in others. Some are resisting the elimination of their culture, religion, borders, language.


8 posted on 11/01/2021 5:36:38 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Made a Let's Go Brandon! face mask. Showing my disdain for the pope's new squeeze. )
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Here comes Poxit.


9 posted on 11/01/2021 5:53:59 AM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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