Poland has made a lot of effort to get money from the KPO, unfortunately the Polish opposition has made a lot of effort not to get this money for Poland, European Affairs Minister Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk said on Polish Radio 24.
KPO and the harmful actions of the opposition
Szynkowski vel Sęk, when asked if Poland will receive money from KPO, replied:
Poland has made a lot of effort to get this money, unfortunately the Polish opposition has made a lot of effort not to get this money for Poland.
According to the minister, “these dozens of resolutions from the European Parliament are no coincidence, they are an example of regular sand in the government since 2016”.
The opposition wants to harm the government, but it harms Poland, because it gave the impression that there were problems with the rule of law and media freedom everywhere in Poland. Any excuse is good, even studying Russian influence is a good excuse to attack our country. In connection with the above, European institutions, sometimes in a naive way, but sometimes also characterized by a certain ill will, when receiving this information, have reasons to block measures such as KPO funds from us
– said the Minister of European Affairs.
“They just belong to Poland”
He recalled that “we managed to reach a compromise with the European Commission on this issue, the entry into force of the Law on the Supreme Court is part of this compromise, which is currently being assessed by the Constitutional Court.” “I hope it will be viewed positively and that these funds will go to Poland, because they simply belong to Poland,” he stressed.
He pointed out that “if the opposition had not taken active action against Poland in this matter, these measures would have been in Poland a long time ago.”
National Recovery Plan and milestones in the judiciary
In February this year, President Andrzej Duda referred to the Constitutional Tribunal – as a pre-emptive check – an amendment to the Supreme Court law. Law and Justice politicians – the authors of the law – argued that its adoption will be crucial for Poland to receive funds from the EU Reconstruction Fund under the KPO – National Recovery Plan after the COVID-19 pandemic. The amendment stipulates, among other things, that disciplinary and immunity cases of judges should be decided by the Supreme Administrative Court, and not – as is currently the case – by the Supreme Court’s Professional Liability Chamber.
In the motion addressed to the Constitutional Court, the President asked the Tribunal to examine the constitutionality of, among other things, a number of entries on the test of judicial independence and the transfer of disciplinary and immunity cases from judges to the Supreme Administrative Court. The presidential motion also questioned, among other things, provisions that allow requests for the resumption of legally concluded disciplinary and immunity cases to be allowed, as well as the vacatio legis provided for by this amendment, set at 21 days.
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Source: wPolityce