Too technical and disembodied to ignite passions, the European debate often boils down to low masses where the refrain of the “United States of Europe” does not resonate often since 2005. To hear it in the mouth of Thierry Breton does not. is therefore nothing anecdotal.
What Warsaw is doing by reaffirming the primacy of its Constitution, "
it is as if we were saying: Georgia or Alabama or Texas will no longer recognize the 1st or the 2nd amendment of the American Constitution
", was indignant the European Commissioner for the Internal Market on LCI on October 17, threatening the Poles with sanctions if they do not respect "
the primacy of European law
".
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The "Polexit" in the background of the tensions between Poland and the European Union
The parallel is surprising as it is "
legally hazardous
", according to the lawyer Nicolas Hervieu, who recalls that the European Union is not a State, but remains formally an object of international law: "
Poland like the States - United are sovereign, they have the competence of their competences.
" The European Union,
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