She also said her government would not change course and expressed dismay that Poland was the first country to be investigated under the procedure for monitoring the rule of law, which was established in 2014 over similar concerns the European Union had about Hungary. “You can never use democracy as an argument against the rule of law”. Still, NATO is now poised to press forward with a missile defense plan in Europe, which will involve an anti-missile base in Poland.
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Relations between Warsaw and Brussels are at a low point, with the European Commission (EC) last week launching a probe into whether the new laws violate fundamental EU principles. The country’s prime minister, Beata Szydlo, is due to address the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday. “Poland should solve it on its own”, Szydlo said.
Following the election victory of the right-wing Law and Justice party in October, Poland introduced several laws that have been deemed by many to have been aimed at consolidating power and limiting the judicial freedom of its constitutional court, to which the new government also appointed five new judges.
He urged the European political system “to have an objective look at Poland”.
“We continue to believe that the Polish economy is fundamentally strong, and although we agree that changes to the legal and institutional governance framework are a concern, we believe their impact on the economy is mainly a longer-term issue”, Danske Bank said in an English-language statement. “We are open to everyone who wants to come to Poland and seek a refuge here”.
“The politics is polarised, but if the government fails to deliver on these promises, then that is when the trouble will really begin”, says Prof Aleks Szczerbiak, professor of politics at the University of Sussex.
There are also signs that the electoral support that took Law and Justice to power – as Polish voters rejected the incumbent party for failing to meet economic expectations – is starting to wane, with the latest opinion polls showing the ruling party back down to rump support levels at 27 per cent.
BRUSSELS-The president of Poland called for an increased presence of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation troops in his country, saying on Monday that a visible force was necessary to deter Russian aggression.
Tusk said commentators and politicians should refrain from “hysterical behavior” and insisted that “the interests of Poland and the European Union are basically the same”.
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“Poland doesn’t deserve to be monitored”, Szydlo said, adding that her country was “hurt” by the “unjust” treatment.
