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mytailorisrichyesterday at 3:18 PM3 repliesview on HN

Well an euroskeptic government is out and a new as pro-EU as is possible to be (Donald Tusk was President of the EU Council) is in, so all is well... You may recognise a pattern that is at play in other countries both in the EU and outside.


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epolanskiyesterday at 3:52 PM

Whether the government was EU skeptic or not is irrelevant. Plenty of EU countries had similarly EU skeptical governments.

What matters are facts: Poland violated several points of the Treaty of the European Union, the EU Charter and CJEU rulings all stating the same thing: to be part of the European Union rule of law must be respected.

In other words: the judicial branch of power has to be independent. Politicians write laws. Judges and not politicians, rule on whether they are respected or not.

And again, I'm Polish, I know what I'm talking about: the previous government went far in bending the constitution, controlling the press and the judges taking our country step after step towards a dictatorship.

pqtywyesterday at 3:41 PM

How is that related to the comment above?

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kiiciayesterday at 4:47 PM

So what you say is that you accept one side of extremum but not other side? Democracy as in having common goal is bad but democracy as in tribalism is good?