Justice Min hopes top court "will behave properly" in EU law primacy case - The First News
Poland’s justice minister has said that he hopes the country’s Constitutional Tribunal “will behave properly” and confirm that the Polish constitution takes primacy over EU law.
The Constitutional Tribunal is due to meet on Thursday to continue a sitting adjourned earlier this month to decide on the primacy issue.
A ruling in favour of the Polish constitution could further strain relations with Brussels because the primacy of EU law over national law is a tenet of EU membership.
"I hope that the Constitutional Tribunal will confirm the supremacy of the Polish constitution over EU law," Zbigniew Ziobro said on Monday, referring to the prime minister's motion asking the top court to check if three points of the Treaty on the European Union were compatible with the Polish constitution.
Ziobro expressed hope that the top court "will behave properly and that it will reliably define the legal environment" of the entire case.
The Tribunal was due to issue the ruling on August 31 but it was then postponed until September 22 after a motion was lodged by the Ombudsman's calling for the exclusion of one judge from the panel.
The case came before the Tribunal in late March when Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki asked it to check if the points were compatible with the Polish constitution.
Morawiecki said that the motion had been filed with the Constitutional Tribunal "in order to once again and additionally confirm the supremacy of the Polish constitution, which is the highest legal act in the Polish legal system - over EU law."
Referring to the European Commission's appeal to Poland for it to withdraw the prime minister's motion from the top court, Ziobro said that it was "scandalous."
He added that, in his opinion, Poland was being treated like "a colony," and that even in the times of the Soviet dominance in the region its apparatchiks had never tried to interfere in Poland's affairs in such a way.
source: https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/justice-min-hopes-top-court-will-behave-properly-in-eu-law-primacy-case-24963
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