The Roots of Poland’s Defiance of the European Union
Just one day after the legislation became law, Poland’s new prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, stood side by side in Warsaw with Britain’s prime minister, Theresa May, to announce a new defense agreement
and a commitment to protecting the rights of the one million Poles in Britain after it leaves the bloc.
Mr. Matczak said he also fears that Mr. Kaczynski and his party plan to create a "fourth republic" — one based on conservative values
and purged of pernicious enemies dating back to the Communist era.
Mr. Matczak, a fierce opponent of the legislation signed by Mr. Duda, acknowledged
that this lack of inclusion led to a bitterness that still fuels the governing party and its powerful leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
It would take eight more years to create a constitution, one
that Marcin Matczak, a professor of constitutional law at Warsaw University, said was "enacted within a post-totalitarian trauma." "There was a great fear that the government may be too strong and that we could return to the old times," he said.
But last week, Poland challenged the very notion of what it means to be part of the bloc when the country pushed ahead with controversial measures to overhaul its judicial system
and essentially put the courts under the control of the governing party.
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and even though only two of the 80-odd justices on the Supreme Court have ties dating to the Soviet era, their influence is still felt, he said, echoing the party line. that th
