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| EU moves to sanction Poland for 'breach' of rule of law |
| 2017-12-21 |
| [Al Jazeera] The European Commission, the executive body of the EU, has begun the process of enacting Article 7 of the EU Treaty against Poland, citing "a clear risk" of "a serious breach" in the rule of law due to perceived threats against an independent judiciary. Over the past two years, "Polish authorities have adopted more than 13 laws affecting the entire structure of the justice system in Poland," the EC said in a statement on Wednesday. The EC's concerns over the ruling, rightwing populist and nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party's policies have grown over the past two years, since the party won an outright majority in 2015 - the first party to do so since the transition from communism to democracy. The EC says the PiS government's judiciary reforms stack the courts with friendly judges, by giving the president much discretionary power to extend the mandate of Supreme Court judges, and imposing a younger retirement age on already-serving magistrates, among other reasons. These moves contribute to a "lack of an independent and legitimate constitutional review and judicial independence", the EC claimed. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 I'm willing to accept that the abstainers just felt they shouldn't dignify this shit (about where WE should place OUR embassy) with an actual vote. The Yes votes? Fuck em |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-12-21 21:18 |
| #8 I'm getting tired of this temper tantrum that most of those countries pulled on us. Lets just pull our military out of those countries and let them fend for themselves using their own money. Exception of course would be those countries that voted aith the US and maybe some leeway given to those countries that abstained from the vote (mostly because they wanted to but they had to appease their local citizens.) the countries that abstained were: Antigua-Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, the Bahamas, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cameroon, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Haiti, Hungary, Jamaica, Kiribati, Latvia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Rwanda, the Solomon Islands, South Sudan, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda and Vanuatu. |
| Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-12-21 21:05 |
| #7 "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little bear, too!" |
| Posted by: WWotW 2017-12-21 20:27 |
| #6 Marsz, marsz, Dabrowski! |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2017-12-21 13:40 |
| #5 Bulldoze the structure and salt the earth. |
| Posted by: Don Vito Bourbon3691 2017-12-21 13:15 |
| #4 Germany and most of the old EU and NATO just dissed us in the UN. A pox on them! |
| Posted by: 3dc 2017-12-21 13:05 |
| #3 Piss on the ewe. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2017-12-21 12:53 |
| #2 Merkill's Germany Broke the law then punishes others for it's mistakes! The EUSSR is eating itself. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-12-21 07:15 |
| #1 Germans tend to forget that, whenever they push Poland, it allies with Russia. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-12-21 02:47 |