EU TENSIONS ERUPT: Hungary’s Orban savages European ‘INQUISITION’ over Poland courts row

Saturday, July 22, 2017
By Paul Martin

HUNGARIAN prime minister Viktor Orban has offered his support to Poland amid threats of EU sanctions over the country’s plans to extend government control over its courts.

By WILL KIRBY
Express.co.uk
Sat, Jul 22, 2017

Poland is set to overhaul its Supreme Court by introducing a new law that allows parliament to appoint judges, despite huge street protests and a warning from the EU that the move undermines democracy and the rule of law.

Speaking in Romania today, Mr Orban said: “The inquisition offensive against Poland can never succeed because Hungary will use all legal options in the European Union to show solidarity with the Poles.”

The bill, sponsored by the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), was passed by Poland’s Senate on Saturday despite one of the biggest protests since the PiS came to power in late 2015.

Like Mr Orban, PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski has been a staunch critic of the EU and has repeatedly accused Brussels of showing disrespect for the democratic freedoms of member states.

European Council President Donald Tusk, a former Polish centrist prime minister and arch-adversary of PiS, said he had asked President Andrzej Duda for an urgent meeting about the “political crisis” in the country.

Mr Tusk said in a statement that PiS moves on courts were backward, went “against European standards and values”, harmed Poland’s reputation and risked marginalising the country.

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