Ruling that parts of EU law are incompatible with the Polish constitution puts Warsaw and Brussels on a collision course
People demonstrate in front of the Constitutional Tribunal building, during a session ruling on whether several articles of EU Treaties comply with the Polish Constitution in Warsaw, Poland on October 7 2021. Picture: JACEK MARCZEWSKI/Agencja Gazeta via REUTERS A Polish court ruling challenging the supremacy of EU law has plunged the European Union into an existential crisis and raises the possibility of Poland leaving the 27-nation bloc, ministers from other member states warned on Friday.
“We have to state clearly that this government in Poland is playing with fire,” Luxembourg’s minister for foreign affairs, Jean Asselborn, said on arrival for a meeting of EU ministers in Luxembourg. “It is most serious ... There is the de facto risk of an exit from the EU,” Beaune told BFM TV, adding that he did not want Poland to leave the bloc.
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