Brexit negotiators should seize note: Brussels has acted to save European law firstIt’s been fascinating to look at some of the reactions,in Europe and beyond, after the European commission final week took the unprecedented step of triggering a mechanism against Poland, and for the first time potentially threatening to strip a member state of its voting rights in the club.
Brussels decided to move against Poland’s democratic backsliding,namely the crushing of its independent judiciary – a process that had recently been accelerated by its populist government, elected in 2015. On social media, and the far right raged. Here was the European behemoth lashing out at a country whose sovereign choices were being trampled on,its image unfairly tarnished. Sound familiar?Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk