Poland is destroying the chances of billions from the EU: Reuters
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Poland's militant stance at the Reynders-Ziobro meeting shattered hopes for an agreement that could help unlock €36 billion for Poland as part of the recovery of the economy after the pandemic, writes the Reuters agency, citing a member of the delegation that accompanied Reynders in Warsaw.
EU justice commissioner, Belgian politician Didier Reynders met Zbigniew Ziobro in Warsaw on November 18. The conversation concerned, inter alia, the divergence of positions between the Polish Ministry of Justice and the European Commission on the rule of law.
The Reuters agency writes that the commissioner was treated "brutally", Reynders was "evidently shocked" by the position of Warsaw, and the meeting did not bring the positions closer.
According to Reuters, two more events have taken place since the visit of the justice commissioner to Warsaw, which further weakened the prospects of a quick resolution of the deadlock.
The first are the signals coming from the new German government, which promises harder reactions than Angela Merkel to breaking the principles of democracy in the EU. The second development is the legal opinion of the CJEU general advocate, Manuel Camposa Sánchez-Bordon, who believes that Poland's and Hungary's complaints about the conditionality mechanism should be dismissed.
