Brussels to proceed with Article 7 despite Polish ‘white paper’
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Grzegorz Siwicki
21.03.2018 16:46
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Brussels to proceed with Article 7 despite Polish ‘white paper’
Despite "white paper" explanations supplied by the government in Warsaw, the European Commission has said it will continue with its Article 7 proceedings against Poland.
Konrad Szymański, Poland’s deputy foreign minister for European affairs. Picture: tvnewsroom.consilium.europa.eu
During a meeting of EU ministers in Brussels on Tuesday, the European Commission’s vice-president, Frans Timmermans, said that information provided by the Polish government in its white paper on the disputed reform of the judicial system did not add anything new amid a months-long rule-of-law spat.
Sławek Szefs reports that some member states have opposed being quoted in the Polish “white paper” as examples of countries that introduced the same kind of legal solutions as those in Poland but ones that the European Commission has not questioned.
"We have never suggested that the solutions adopted by the Polish parliament are identical,” said Konrad Szymański, Poland’s deputy foreign minister for European affairs. “We pointed to similarities which are valid to the extent of fully justifying the introduction of such institutions in another member country.”