The Commissioner for Justice met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Justice, and one of the objectives of his entire visit to the Vistula River was ‘the restoration of the rule of law’. How did an EU official check the rule of law? After all, this is not a visit to a farm where feeling the cow’s udders and looking into the pigs’ troughs helps assess the effectiveness of management and compliance with regulations. Why should the Commissioner be personally present in this case? We asked this question to former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Paweł Jabłoński:
If anyone wants to assess the law, he must read the regulations. Meanwhile, the ruling coalition has not passed any law or made changes to the law since taking power on December 13. They operate according to the police method, the coercive method, and pass resolutions in the Sejm. However, from a legal point of view, nothing has changed in matters related, for example, to the system, the legal system or the formation of the National Council for the Judiciary.
So we have the same legal situation as during the ‘violation of the rule of law’ by PiS, and yet the bureaucrat from Brussels is full of optimism. At the press conference, Reynders said that “the European Union is based on values.” “The European Commission is fully committed to providing support to the Polish government.” What on earth does that mean? Jabłoński interprets that clearly
The Commissioner’s empty words and general formulas on the rule of law unfortunately confirm that the real reasons for the commission’s actions were and are political, not legal.
At the press conference, Telewizja Trwam also asked about the violation of the law by the current government, but Reynders could only promise that he would look into it. Jabłoński commented:
If, contrary to the law, you forcibly enter the public media, the presidential palace, and try to take over the Public Prosecution Service and subjugate it politically – because that is what the attack on the National Public Prosecution Service is about – this is a extreme case. politicization of this institution.
Jabłoński calls the attitude of the politicians of the current government “submissive” and points out another incident from today’s visit:
Bodnar, who wanted to apologize to Reynders because he had received photos of the destroyed Warsaw from Minister Ziobro last time, decided to give the commissioner a photo of the rebuilt Warsaw. The Polish Minister of Justice therefore found it distasteful to commemorate the destruction of the Polish capital by the Germans and wanted to compensate the EU official for this. This is acting against the interests of Poles, acting from an inferiority complex and a mentality of servility, which Bodnar has consistently put forward since he called Poland an “animal” that adult and human Germans should take care of. It is simply a tragedy that such people influence the affairs of our country today.
Actually, the way you receive a guest from Brussels is really slavish. Adam Bodnar is not the first time he has expressed enthusiasm that foreign officials like the new administration’s policies. The minister was happy that he had received the approval of the American ambassador, now he can add an EU bureaucrat to the collection.
And so Reynders also met Adam Szłapka and Bogdan Klich, and during each conversation the commissioner repeated that Poland was important for Europe. The Brussels official also met with representatives of the “Free Courts” and Iustitia – including: Michał Wawrykiewicz and Bartłomiej Przymusiński, who spread assurances everywhere that Poland is part of the European community.
The point is that nothing actually came out of these meetings – neither side obtained knowledge or documents that created a new legal situation, nothing was agreed on mutual relations, and judging by the beaming excitement of Adam Bodnar and his blissful smile, was the abbot of a prosperous monastery, you can guess that Reynders came to make Europeans admire Europe.
In political reality, Reynders should be the petitioner – without a democratic mandate, an official of an international association comes to his employers, and they look at him as company employees look at a foreign director. Even Reynders’ personal career is not impressive: the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of a small European country takes over half of the government of a country with forty million inhabitants in the center of Europe. From the above, it is clear that no political and state potential, no diplomatic or official rank can balance the slave mentality and the provincial complex in a person. Unfortunately, we are ruled by people who behave like secretariat staff in a peripheral district and not like ministers of a decently solid country.
Source: wPolityce