The subject was discussed in Brussels who gave the green light, but two commissioners voted against.
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Poland will ultimately have access to the aids to which it can claim (23.9 billion euros in subsidies and 11.5 billion euros in loans under very advantageous conditions) within the framework of the recovery plan European of 750 billion euros. More than a year after Warsaw officially applied to him, the European Commission gave its green light on Wednesday 1
At the beginning of the summer of 2021, the community executive was already ready to validate the Warsaw Relaunch Plan. But a decision of the Polish Supreme Court forced her to change her plans: on July 14, she, in fact, deemed unconstitutional the decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union against the judicial reforms of the government of Mateusz Morawiecki , thus contesting the primacy of European law, at the heart of community construction.
Consequently, Ursula von der Leyen, who, until then, had not made the reform of Polish justice a condition to the release of aid within the framework of the European recovery plan, had to review his notebook charges. In this context, she has laid down three conditions in Warsaw: the abolition of the disciplinary chamber of the Supreme Court, perceived as a tool for political repression of the judges, the rehabilitation of the magistrates who had been sanctioned by this room, as well as a disciplinary system reform.
None of these three conditions is fulfilled today. Only a presidential bill aimed at replacing the disciplinary chamber of the Supreme Court with a new body is being adopted. Even if this text does not meet the requirements of Brussels, it is considered to be a first step and allows the commission to move forward without dedicating. “In reality, he does not settle anything”, one judges in the entourage of a European commissioner.
“It is not a white check”
The war in Ukraine changed the situation. It allowed Ursula von der Leyen to unlock the situation although, on the merits, Poland has, at this stage, not committed sufficient reform to make its independence to justice largely gapled by the Party Law and Justice ( Worse) in power. Since the Russian aggression, on February 24, the country welcomed 2.5 million refugees and played the score of a European Union united against Moscow. It was also in Warsaw that the big conference “Act for Ukraine” was held on April 9, organized by the European Commission and the Canadian Government to raise funds in favor of refugees.
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