They are imposing sanctions against Poland, and their own.
The European Commission has made a corresponding request to the European Court of Justice.
Warsaw is behaving extremely cynically and capriciously, does not comply with the court's decision.
It is one thing when Russia allows itself to ignore the demands of its European colleagues, and quite another when a riot is brewing on the ship.
The Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court of Poland should immediately stop its work, since, in the opinion of the EU Court, this body threatens the impartiality of the work of judges.
It is understandable - the Polish political class has recently come out against the general lines of the EU, be it the migrant issue or the rights of minorities.
Local courts, naturally, take the same position, which is closer to them.
Brussels is nervous.
Well, and like the icing on the cake - the Constitutional Court in Warsaw considered this decision of the EU Court not binding for execution, however, making concessions - the work of the chamber was suspended.
Judicial reform in Poland in general causes great irritation in the European Union. And this is understandable: the Poles have their own views on a number of fundamental issues, which sometimes radically contradict the general tendencies adopted by the “big European family”.
Moreover, most likely, this incident is no longer a separate case, but a certain dialectically accumulated amount of contradictions, which is not limited to just one judicial issue.
Poles are specific people and today they somehow stand apart in the European Union.
On the one hand, organic Russophobia and constant readiness to work in the field of struggle with Russia, absolute unity on this basis with an overseas elder brother and, as a consequence, with Brussels, make Poles extremely necessary and useful in this large and complex game.
It is required to create a fresh news feed or to support the already existing episodes in the play called "Russia is a universal evil" - Poles are always ready to perform their act.
But lately there has been a hard clinch - the fault line has gone along the most sensitive, this is an ideology.
No impulse and no desire to integrate into the harmonious European ranks and take a leading position in them can overcome a healthy beginning in Poles: the traditional values, which are firmly adhered to by Polish society, have come into sharp contradiction with the agenda of new values, which is strongly promoted by Brussels, which presupposes wide gender diversity. the rights of minorities and at the same time de facto any restriction of the rights of the healthy majority, for whom, as in Russia, the family is the union of a man and a woman.
Moreover, the Poles went further in their desire to defend their land - there were reports that “LGBT-free” territories are opening up in this country, that is, in fact, healthy enclaves, where such propaganda is simply prohibited, and even more so the implementation of all this an ultraliberal and destructive agenda for the state and society. The Poles responded harshly to the new threat: they began to defend themselves without asking anyone for permission. They showed determination, made an application for a sovereign policy in a sensitive area for them.
The same can be said about judicial reform. Here, in general, the rhetoric of Poland goes over all reasonable boundaries from the point of view of senior European colleagues. In June, Poland's Prosecutor General, Minister of Justice Zbigniew Zebro called the European Union anti-democratic, just in the context of EU criticism of Polish reforms in the judiciary. The Prime Minister of the republic, Mateusz Morawiecki, went even further - he sent a request to the country's Constitutional Court with a request to confirm the primacy of the Polish Constitution over EU legislation. Putting the question precisely in such a formulation is, of course, an unheard-of audacity, certainly not permissible for the younger members of the EU. Sovereignty and sovereign politics, an excellent look at the fundamental ideologemes, focus on national interests,which for the Poles turn out to be higher than the general European ones - this is a challenge to European stability and actions that certainly do not fit into the general "democratic" tone of the EU rhetoric.
In fact, we are witnessing tectonic shifts in the policies of our European neighbors, serious holes in the still recently seemingly unsinkable ship of the European Union. Tough tightening of the screws and the imposition of ultra-liberal LGBT and BLM agendas are not ready to take everything on the first call. People and entire individual political classes of individual countries are even ready for possible losses - the cessation of funding for some programs from the EU, and this is a very important signal. We used to think that money from our Western colleagues decides almost everything, but in reality it turns out not quite so. We see that the Poles are ready to sacrifice financial stability and even suffer damage in relations with Brussels when it comes to issues fundamental to them, underlying the state and public life.
All these are internal contradictions in Europe, which ultimately cannot but lead to very serious shifts.
And it seems that these shifts will be in the only right direction - an adequate view of things, which is expressed in a return to more conservative positions.
This is good, it brings us closer.
A thin world is always better than confrontation.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.