The European Commission has sent Poland notice to pay some 70 million euros in fines for failing to reverse an illegal disciplinary regime for judges, a spokesman said, an escalation in a row between Warsaw and the European Union. Poland gets formal EU demand to pay fines over judicial regime https://t.co/5KHF0Mk2n5 pic.twitter.com/lPNZBaKkeQ — Reuters (@Reuters)…
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Oldest Europe’s forest endangered
Polish relevant authorities are planning to cut down 154,000 cubic meters of trees in #Bialowieza forest within the period of three years, Environment Minister Henryk Kowalczyk said this week. “The total number for three years is 154,000 cubic meters. This is 0.6 percent of all threes in the forest,” Kowalczyk said at a press conference. The…
Tusk and Warsaw trading barbs over #Polexit
President of EU Council Donald Tusk’s comments on possible #Polexit were a clear sign of “ill will and false care” towards Poland’s Government. Secretary of State for European Affairs Konrad Szymański, said, blaming Brussels apparatchik on throwing fuel to the fire. “This is an absurd thesis. It looks as if he is praying for this to…
Merkel supports EU lawsuit against Poland
Germany’s enters alongside France into a battle between the European Commission and Poland over the rule of law increasing the probability of unprecedented EU action to punish Warsaw. EU heads toward tougher action on Poland after Merkel joins fray https://t.co/lcZ6n61bBr pic.twitter.com/AdJULufwio — Reuters (@Reuters) September 4, 2017 German Chancellor Angela Merkel last week by criticized…
Trump challenges Europe on its will to survive
The US President Donald Trump addressed a congregation in Poland with a highly political speech raising the rhetoric questions on the will for survival of the Western civilization at risk facing the hostile forces of Islamic terrorism. At the start of a four-day trip to Europe, the US president gave a speech a in Warsaw underlining…
Poland refuses concept of multispeed EU
Today Poland promised to launch ‘hard talks’ at the European Union’s anniversary at Rome informal summit end of this week. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Polish political heavy-weight, said that Warsaw will not bow to any form of a multi-speed Europe. The March 25 EU summit marking the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, which paved…
Poland risks voting rights in EU
This week Poland a dismissed requests to implement judiciary reforms deemed essential by the European Commission to uphold the rule of law, raising Warsaw’s risks to be stripped of its voting rights in the 28-member bloc. The EuropeanCommission offered Warsaw two months period starting from December to implement measures to protect the powers of the…
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