EU - what's next?

Slovenia joins Hungary & Poland's camp in EU fight over the rule of law. PM Janša has sent letter to EU leaders, claiming that the #RuleOfLaw agreement btwn the EU Parliament & the Council 'undermines' #EUCO's Recovery Fund agreement.#MFF #NextGenerationEU

— Yannis Koutsomitis (@YanniKouts) November 18, 2020

Kirko Skaddeng wrote:Propustio sam - kada je Slovenija postala ovakva?

Ferenc Puskás wrote:Veteran borbe protiv titoizma. Spaja stoljeća.

After joining with Hungary to stall the EU's €1.82 trillion budget-and-recovery package, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki sharply escalated tensions on Wednesday, accusing Brussels of spreading propaganda, likening the bloc to Poland's former Communist regime, and railing against "arbitrary decisions" by "Eurocrats" and "the European oligarchy."
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But in a speech to the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, that largely amounted to a fit and a tantrum, Morawiecki insisted that Poland was a victim and, without irony, he complained about Brussels treating Poland like a child to be disciplined. He said it was the EU that is flouting the rule of law.

"The rule of law and breaking the rule of law have become a propaganda stick in the EU," he said. "We reject this position, we reject this approach. We know well from the times of PZPR [Polish United Workers' Party], from the Communist times, the use of these propaganda sticks."

At another point, Morawiecki raged: “The EU must be built on a foundation of law and legal certainty. This is also the principle we are fighting for. Because without this principle of legal certainty, the EU is a mechanism for making arbitrary decisions by Eurocrats, and de facto by the European oligarchy, sometimes by a few stronger countries just to dominate the weaker ones. And we do not agree to this.”
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In Warsaw, Morawiecki tried to portray Poland as a solitary hero fighting an evil empire, but he struggled to square his country's professed support for the EU with his complaints about virtually every aspect of how the Union is actually run. He pledged to restate his gripes against Brussels during the videoconference summit on Thursday, though summit observers say that such rhetoric geared to a home audience is rarely repeated.

"We're swimming against the current at this point," Morawiecki proclaimed in the Sejm, "against the mainstream, this mainstream in Brussels, which has a specific vision of the European Union. One that, in my opinion, has no chance of surviving. That is why we have decided to fight, fight for Poland, but also fight for the future of the European Union."

"We say a loud 'yes' to the EU, but we say a loud 'no' to various mechanisms that chasten us like children and treat Poland and other EU member states unequally," Morawiecki declared.

https://www.politico.eu/article/polish-premier-points-finger-at-eu-in-budget-fight/

Kaczyński takes off mask and accuses opposition of "having blood on yr hands" for supporting protests amid pandemic

Then ignores speaker calling a break to tell opposition "when there's rule of law in Poland, many of you will serve time"

PiS MPs applaud pic.twitter.com/8JLGt4CwoM

— Daniel Tilles (@danieltilles1) November 18, 2020

Tonight in Poland we've seen:
- Ruling party leader declare in parliament that opposition MPs will go to jail
- Opposition MP pepper sprayed by plain clothes police while peacefully presenting her ID
- Plain clothes police with telescopic batons using force against protesters

— Daniel Tilles (@danieltilles1) November 18, 2020

Anduril wrote:U EU se diskutuje opcija da se jednostavno bilateralno 25 zemalja dogovori oko budzeta, a Poljska i Madjarska da se polako kuvaju ko zabe.

Anduril wrote:U EU se diskutuje opcija da se jednostavno bilateralno 25 zemalja dogovori oko budzeta, a Poljska i Madjarska da se polako kuvaju ko zabe.