Hungary backs Polish top court ruling highlighting EU’s ‘problematic practices’
Justice Minister Judit Varga on Tuesday reiterated the Hungarian government’s support for a recent ruling by Poland’s constitutional court which she said highlighted the “problematic practices” of European Union institutions.
In a statement she published on Facebook ahead of a meeting of EU affairs ministers in Luxembourg, Varga said Brussels had “stepped on the gas” and “blackmailed” Hungary and Poland because “we think differently about the world and Europe”.
She said Brussels opposed Hungary and Poland’s pro-family policies, their rejection of immigration and their push for “a strong Europe of strong nations instead of an empire”.
“We are and will remain members of this club,”
Varga said. “This club has rules that have long been laid down in the Treaties. However, it is Brussels, not us, that wants to break these principles, and to do so by force.”
Varga said that in addition to publishing reports on the state of the rule of law in Hungary and Poland and launching infringement procedures against them, the EU was also “blackmailing” the two countries by withholding funds from them that they were entitled to.
“While we’re being hounded over the Child Protection Act, Poland is being attacked for blocking the EU’s stealthy transfer of powers,”
the minister said. “We’re used to the pressure, Budapest and Warsaw are standing firm, shoulder to shoulder.”
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Varga said she agreed with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who said in a letter addressed to EU leaders on Monday that “the principle of the primacy of EU law is not unlimited, but only applies in areas that fall within EU competence”. Powers that have not been transferred to the EU by member states must remain with member states, she cited Morawiecki as saying.
“So it is not Hungary and Poland that are breaking the rules of the club, but the Brussels bureaucracy, with these underhand and ideologically biased political games!”
Varga said.
Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal said in a judgement earlier this month that the Polish constitution had supremacy over EU law in matters in which the bloc had no power.
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Source: MTI
2014 – 2020, Poland received kb 106 billion euros from the EU. 2014 – 2020 Poland paid in 24 billion euros. 1997 PiOland rewrote their constitution (a piece of paper than can be changed), 2004 tPoland signed up for the EU. 2021, nearly 18 years later and loads of money later, Poland suddenly thinks that the small print of the contract does not fit with their constitution? Hello, either they lied earlier or were very stupid. Or both. The element of EU law that is in the treaty that Poland signed has not changed. Ergo, the Polish government cannot argue its way out of this one.
“While we’re being hounded over the Child Protection Act, Poland is being attacked for blocking the EU’s stealthy transfer of powers,”
Justice Minister Judit Varga is 100% right. She defends Hungarian interests against the EU dictators becoming more and more like the Soviet Union.
This matter is nothing to do with whoever that Varga person. is. There is no stealth. The treaty Poland signed in 2004 has not been changed. This is an issue that the POLISH people will decide when the y kick the PiS(s) taking government out in due no course. Not a matter for Hungarian people Mr István. None of your business.
„Lengyel, magyar két jó barát, együtt harcol, s issza borát, vitéz, s bátor mindkettője, áldás szálljon mindkettőre!”
Nothing Soros’ dogs can say to change that.
Don’t tell fibs. You have no friends. You don’t have time. You live online.