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Bringing EU matters back into important focus: Paywall link - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-ne...aign=DM1462311

Curated quotes:

Poland stokes fears of EU exit as court defies bloc over reforms

Poland's membership of the EU was plunged into uncertainty on Wednesday after its judges defied a European court order to reverse some of its controversial judicial reforms.

Stanisław Piotrowicz, a senior Polish judge, said that interim measures by the EU’s highest court, which ordered Warsaw to suspend the reforms, were “not in line” with the Polish constitution.

The defiant ruling is the first of two verdicts due to be issued this week by Polish judges which appear to question a fundamental requirement of EU membership: that EU law takes precedence over national laws.

Glorious, albeit that the row is about an ant-democratic law that Poland recently institutes (political appointment of a judges' star chamber). I'm not confident, though, that a referendum would produce a majority for exiting the EU.



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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

I'm not sure that's a valid argument for not trying.

Pissing in the wind would cover that.