What do you think in Germany about the anti-EU turmoil in Poland
The article by Tino Oldani
Commenting on the legal conflict between the Constitutional Court of Poland and the European Court of Justice, a few days ago Enrico Letta, secretary of the Democratic Party, launched a tweet in English, understandable even without translation: "The Polish Constitutional Court statement seems a #Polexit de facto. It is not just folklore ».
A judgment perfectly aligned with the leaders of the European Union, led by Ursula von der Leyen, who consider the EU legislation to prevail over national laws and constitutions, and for this reason they attributed the significance of a Polexit to the recent sentence with which the Court Polish constitutional law affirmed the exact opposite: EU rules are binding only for matters on which member states have delegated their powers to Brussels, but they are by no means binding for national constitutions, much less for matters on which individual states they have never delegated their sovereignty to the EU, which are, in the Polish case, the rules for the appointment of magistrates.
In Italy, with a few exceptions, most of the political comments have adopted the thesis of Brussels and Letta. Ditto the journalists (it was enough to read the editorial in the Corriere della Sera yesterday morning), scandalized by the so-called "Polish sovereignty", now firmly associated with "Hungarian sovereignty", therefore to be condemned, regardless of the examination of the merits of individual cases.
Quite different music in Germany, where the most authoritative media have always shown a greater knowledge of European treaties and their limits, denounced several times by the German Constitutional Court. Not only. For the German newspapers, the hypothesis of a Polexit must be nipped in the bud, since, if implemented, it would be a disaster for the German economy.
In this regard, the economic daily Handelsblatt wrote: "Poland's exit from the EU would be even more disastrous than Brexit, because Polish companies are much more closely integrated into European supply chains than British companies."
An alarm that DWN (Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten), a German online newspaper owned by Sweden, shared describing the close links, sector by sector, between the German industry and the Polish one, its main subcontractor.
The first sector, of course, is the car sector: «Poland is one of the most important countries in the world for Volkswagen and other international manufacturers. The Volksburg-based group is one of the largest German investors, has several factories in Poland and a dense network of dealers. Poland is a second home for Volkswagen in Europe ». Opinion that the newspaper strengthens with a wealth of data on import-export between Germany and Poland not only in the car, but also in mechanical engineering, agricultural products and the furniture industry, where the Polish one is the third in the world .
With these premises, it will be very difficult for the German media to take sides in favor of an expulsion of Poland from the EU. The same goes for political leaders, especially conservatives and liberals, who in Berlin shared the sentences with which the constitutional court of Karlsruhe has repeatedly declared the ECB's Quantitative easing incompatible with the German constitution. And in those cases no one in Europe has ever dreamed of talking about "Germanexit de facto". Ditto when the Italian Constitutional Court also ruled in clear disagreement with the European Court of Justice, as very few Italian jurists recalled, no more than three, who, after an examination of the merits, agreed with the Polish Court instead of the Commission. EU.
On Atlanticoquotidiano.it , Rocco Todero, after declaring himself a pro-European, recalls that "legal nationalism" in Europe was not invented by Poland: "Recently a case involved the Italian Constitutional Court, which warned the European Court of Justice on impossibility of giving priority to European law when this violates the principles of the republican Constitution ”.
In this case (Taricco ruling), the EU Court demanded the retroactive application of a criminal law. An obvious mistake, corrected thanks to the consultation. Todero himself specifies: «The EU is based on partial transfers of sovereignty by the nation states; these are sectoral disposals and can be revoked at any time. If the sale were total and definitive, the European nation states as we know them today would no longer exist. There would be a United States of Europe ”.
Musso's judgment on the same site is much sharper: «The Polish Court defends the treaties from the forcing of Brussels. In contrast to the Polish Constitution, it is not the four articles of the Treaties cited in the judgment, but the interpretation given to these articles in Brussels and Luxembourg. Polexit could be talked about if the Polish Court had declared them not applicable, while in reality it has given a literal interpretation of them. So there is no Polexit, on the contrary Poland would be defending the Treaties from the attempts of the EU Commission to usurp powers that it does not belong to ».
Opinion shared by the constitutionalist Alessandro Mangia who, interviewed by La Verità , with a clear reference to the EU-Warsaw disputes over the rule of law, LGBTQ +, justice and the recent block of the Recovery Plan funds, concludes: "The EU Commission violates the treaties even though to punish Poland. Constitutional conflicts are always a question of money. The 2022-29 Regulation is based on the EU financial interest and was created ad hoc to condition financial transfers to the wishes of Brussels. Either do what we say, or no money. That is the logic of the recovery fund. Nothing new".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/che-cosa-si-pensa-in-germania-dei-subbugli-anti-ue-in-polonia/ on Sat, 16 Oct 2021 05:51:35 +0000.