It’s nice that we’ll be getting this money but…
This is not a great look for the EU since we have not reached barely any of the milestones. We pinky promised to do so and are likely to achieve them in 2 years (after current presidential term), which is likely but not guaranteed. EU commission president and our prime minister (both EPP coincidentally) are supporting each other’s personal political goals which will be brought up by anti-EU crowd for sure. This screams lack of long term vision, again.
I mean considering the murmurings towards federalization and in a world where Brexit happened I don’t exactly see the issue with the EU openly boosting the not Anti-EU parties against the alternatives.
Especially when trusting the average european country to not actively endeavor to sit on its own nuts with gusto got the world a sweep of morons who forgot that the world wars are things that happened and earned what they’re preaching a rightful place in the “dumb fuck ideas for morons with faces in dire needs of being punched” category.
It’s not about boosting anti-EU parties, I’m saying neither PiS nor KO led government did what’s necessary to unlock the funds. KO didn’t change any laws that are the issue, because it would be vetoed by the president. All that was done was essentially executive orders by minister of justice and various legal tricks that could be undone immediately if KO lost power. Things working on a whim of a single person without any checks and balances is not exactly rule of law.
EU critics accused commission of withholding those funds based on sympathies alone and now they have very reasonable proof for just that. It’s not good long term, especially for deeper integration.
That still sounds like they’re trying to invent “AHAH! YOU AS AN INSTITUTION OPENLY FAVOR THE GROUP THAT IS NOT HOSTILE TO YOU!” as a controversy.
The Eurosceptics have literally no ground to stand on, only the cardboard they keep slapping down between them and going underwater with admitting they just hate the brown people and the gay people, and the EU makes them big mad by not dedicating enough resources to making them feel valid for that.
In politics sometimes you need some good will gestures
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Poland could access some €76.5 billion in cohesion funds to help raise living standards in poorer EU member states.
“Today we turn a page on the Rule Of Law issues [with Poland] as we recognize the important strides made by the government,” EU Commission Vice President Vera Jourova wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
After winning the election in October 2023 and being appointed in December, new Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk pledged to reverse the previous government’s policies.
Last week Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promised “good news” to reward Tusk for his efforts.
Polish Justice Minister Adam Bodnar was in Brussels last week to present the new government’s plan, consisting of laws aimed at rolling back the controversial reforms.
Parts of that plan depend on new legislation, which could yet be vetoed by Polish president Andrzej Duda of the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party, which controlled the previous government.
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