21:46 16 November 2021
Largest factions in the EP want to block the Polish National Reconstruction Plan
The heads of five factions in the European Parliament addressed a letter to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in which they demanded that the approval of the Polish National Reconstruction Plan (KPO) be suspended until "all conditions for the implementation of the Facility for Reconstruction and Increasing Resilience are met". The document was signed by representatives of the European People's Party (EPP), the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D), Renew Europe, the Greens, and the Confederal Group of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left (GUE / NGL).
"A government that denies the primacy of EU law and violates the rule of law cannot be considered as trustworthy to fulfill obligations and responsibilities under our legal instruments," the letter said.
It referred to the situation of the Polish judiciary and the rule of law. The dispute over them has been going on for many years but has intensified in recent weeks, due to the judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal on the supremacy of national law over the EU law. Many experts saw it as undermining the foundations of the EU.
