Originally Posted by
MissMischief
The Polish government may have been democratically elected, but it has set about systematically dismantling the checks and balances that keep a democratic nation democratic. The EU's opposition to this course has to do with PiS' increasingly authoritarian tendencies.
When Poland signed up to the EU, they agreed to certain principles. This is what a union is. Any union. One of those principles was independence of the judiciary - to keep it free from political interference. They are now breaking that principle and so, quite rightly, being called out for it. That is not "arrogance" on the part of the EU, just a simple expectation that members of the union stick to the community's agreements.
Basically, the European Union is a club of democracies or it is nothing. Poland has every right to veer off on some quixotic course of its own, but if it wishes to mount some sort of post-democractic experiment then it needs to do so outside the confines of the EU. And without EU subsidies or access to EU markets.
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