05/10/2020 01:01
(Act. 10.05.2020 01:01)
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Poland praises controversial Karlsruhe ruling on ECB
© APA (dpa)
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Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki of Poland has praised the German Federal Constitutional Court for its controversial judgment on the European Central Bank. It was “one of the most important judgments in the history of the European Union,” wrote Morawiecki in a message to the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung” (FAS).
It may have been said for the first time in this clarity: “The treaties are created by the Member States and they determine where the competence limits lie for the EU institutions.” The Federal Constitutional Court criticized the billion-dollar government bond purchases by the ECB on Tuesday, thereby opposing a judgment of the European Court of Justice for the first time. Unlike the ECJ, the Karlsruhe judges decided that the central bank had overstretched its mandate. They called the ECJ judgment “objectively arbitrary” and “methodologically no longer justifiable”.
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The conservative PiS government in Poland has been restructuring the judiciary for years. The ECJ intervened several times and found that some of the reforms violated EU law. Every mature democracy needs a system of separation of powers and a balance of powers, according to the head of Poland’s government, the newspaper writes. “If that is not the case, any violence, including jurisdiction, will become arbitrary, unlimited, undemocratic power,” said Morawiecki.
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