Poles rally to defend the EU membership they fear losing

WARSAW – Large protests were held crossed Poland connected Sunday successful a amusement of enactment for the European Union aft the nation’s law tribunal ruled this week that the Polish constitution overrides immoderate EU laws.

Critics of the right-wing nationalist authorities fearfulness that the tribunal ruling could pb to “Polexit,” oregon Poland being forced to permission the EU implicit an evident rejection of the bloc’s laws and values.

Thousands of radical successful Warsaw filled Castle Square successful the historical center, with radical chanting, “We are staying!" Some held signs with slogans similar “We are Europeans.”

Donald Tusk, the apical absorption person successful Poland and a erstwhile EU leader, called for the protest, casting it arsenic an effort to support Poland’s continued rank successful the 27-nation bloc.

He powerfully denounced the actions of the ruling enactment nether person Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who has been successful struggle with the EU for six years arsenic his enactment has sought greater power implicit the courts. The EU views the changes arsenic an erosion of antiauthoritarian checks and balances.

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EU rank is highly fashionable successful Poland, having brought caller state to question and a melodramatic economical translation to the cardinal European nation, which had endured decades of communist regularisation until 1989.

Speaking to the crowd, Tusk warned that a “pseudo tribunal ... by bid of the party's leader, successful usurpation of the constitution, decided to instrumentality Poland retired of the EU.”

“We privation an independent, law-abiding, antiauthoritarian and just Poland,” Tusk said, earlier the assemblage sang the nationalist anthem.

Kaczynski has denied that helium wants Poland to permission the bloc, though apical members of the ruling enactment person precocious utilized connection suggesting that mightiness beryllium their aim.

The authorities broadcaster, a mouthpiece for the ruling Law and Justice party, ran headlines during Tusk's code that work “Protest against the Polish constitution,” and “Tusk attacks Polish sovereignty."

Large protests besides took spot successful different cities crossed the country.

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Lech Walesa, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his absorption to Poland's communist regime, spoke to crowds successful Gdansk to applause. Walesa is simply a predominant professional of the government, whom helium accuses of destroying galore of Poland’s antiauthoritarian achievements.

The tribunal ruling, which was issued Thursday by a tribunal mostly loyal to the nationalist government, marks a situation to the primacy of EU law.

In a ineligible determination requested by Poland's premier minister, the tribunal held Thursday that the Polish Constitution has primacy implicit EU laws successful immoderate cases. The premier curate asked for the reappraisal aft the European Court of Justice ruled successful March that Poland’s caller regulations for appointing Supreme Court justices could interruption EU instrumentality and ordered the right-wing authorities to suspend them.

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