Marine Le Pen met on Friday 22 October in Brussels the Polish head of government Mateusz Morawiecki to whom she provided "
support
" in the crisis between her country and the EU by denouncing "
the unacceptable blackmail
" of the European Commission.
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“
Honored to be received today by the head of the Polish government Mateusz Morawiecki,
” the National Rally presidential candidate said on Twitter, posting a photo of her shaking hands with the Polish prime minister.
"
We spoke together in particular of the unacceptable blackmail exercised by the European Commission on Poland, and I wanted to give it my support,
" added Marine Le Pen, who is due to hold a press conference in Brussels afterwards. midday, before going to Budapest on Monday to meet the ultraconservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Before the opening of a summit of the Twenty-Seven on Thursday in Brussels, Mateusz Morawiecki, in conflict with Brussels over the independence of justice and the primacy of European law, said he was "
ready for dialogue
" while denouncing "
the pressure of blackmail
”.
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European leaders played the card of appeasement during this summit, while reserving the possibility of cracking down later.
Tensions have increased since a ruling on October 7 by the Polish Constitutional Court which declared certain articles of European treaties incompatible with the national constitution.
A decision denounced by Brussels as an unprecedented attack on the primacy of European law and the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the EU, but also as the ultimate illustration of the lack of independence of the Polish justice with regard to the government.
