IPSEs IN THE LAST 24H
  • Ursula von der Leyen
    Ursula von der Leyen “I am following the situation in Georgia with great concern and condemn the violence on the streets of Tbilisi. The European Union has also clearly expressed its concerns regarding the law on foreign influence. The Georgian people want a European future for their country.” 55 minutes ago
  • Oleksandr Kozachenko
    Oleksandr Kozachenko “If we compare it with the beginning (of the Russian invasion), when we fired up to 100 shells a day, then now, when we fire 30 shells it's a luxury. Sometimes the number of shells fired daily is in single digits.” 1 hour ago
  • Abdallah al-Dardari
    Abdallah al-Dardari “The United Nations Development Programme's initial estimates for the reconstruction of … the Gaza Strip surpasses $30bn and could reach up to $40bn. The scale of the destruction is huge and unprecedented … this is a mission that the global community has not dealt with since World War II.” 1 hour ago
  • Karine Jean-Pierre
    Karine Jean-Pierre “Americans have the right to peacefully protest. Forcibly taking over a building is not peaceful.” 16 hours ago
  • Janet Yellen
    Janet Yellen “Treasury has consistently warned that companies will face significant consequences for providing material support for Russia's war, and the U.S. is imposing them today on almost 300 targets.” 16 hours ago
  • Catherine Russell
    Catherine Russell “Over 200 days of war have already killed or maimed tens of thousands of children in Gaza. For hundreds of thousands of children in the border city of Rafah, there is added fear of an escalated military operation that would bring catastrophe on top of catastrophe for children. Nearly all of the some 600,000 children now crammed into Rafah are either injured, sick, malnourished, traumatised or living with disabilities.” 16 hours ago
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Poland

Page with all the IPSEs stored in the archive related to Poland.
The IPSEs are presented in chronological order based on when the IPSEs have been pronounced.

“Polish authorities had engineered an (unconstitutional) Polexit from EU legal order to establish a Soviet-style justice system so autocratisation can happen undisturbed.”

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Professor of European law at Middlesex university
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“Poland is saying goodbye to the European legal order. The EU cannot transfer billions to a member state without being able to legally ensure that the money reaches those for whom it is intended.”

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German politician and member of the European Parliament (Green party)
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“The primacy of constitutional law over other sources of law results directly from the constitution of the Republic of Poland. Today (once again) this has been clearly confirmed by the constitutional tribunal. The ruling does not affect any areas where the EU has competences delegated in the treaties.”

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Polish government spokesman
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“EU states must not stand by idly when the rule of law continues to be dismantled by the Polish government. Neither can the European Commission. Our money can't finance governments which mock and negate our jointly agreed rules. By declaring that the EU treaties are not compatible with Polish law, the illegitimate constitutional tribunal in Poland has put the country on the path to Polexit.”

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Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament (European People's Party)
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“This is a legal revolution. Admittedly it's a captured court [Poland's constitutional tribunal], but this is furthest step towards a legal exit from the EU ever taken by a national court.”

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Professor of international and European law at Erasmus university in Rotterdam
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“An open and frank discussion with Polish Minister of the Interior Mariusz Kamiński on the situation at the Polish - Belarus border. The desperation of the Lukashenko regime is clear. As is their lack of respect for vulnerable people. The aggression from the Lukashenko regime deserves a firm and united response from EU. Poland, as a strong EU Member State, can show that the capacity to protect the border can be matched with the ability to respect EU fundamental rights and obligations.”

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EU Commissioner for Home Affairs
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“The dire situation facing the Afghans on the border is one that the Polish government has created. The declaration of 'the state of emergency' is illegitimate and must be lifted. The situation at the country's borders does not constitute a public emergency by European and international definitions. Forcing back people who are trying to claim asylum without an individual assessment of their protection needs is contrary to international and EU law. The introduction of new laws and measures that attempt to legalize pushbacks do nothing to change that. People have requested asylum in an EU country, an EU member state is blatantly violating their rights and the EU must act swiftly and firmly to call out these flagrant abuses of EU and international law.”

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Director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office
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“The news, which we have feared would come for weeks now, came today. Everybody who knows what happens at the border knew that these cruel practices will eventually lead to the loss of life. It's getting colder by the day. In the area where a state of emergency was declared, there is no control over the actions of the authorities. There will be more deaths. But we might not learn about all of them.”

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Statement by the human rights group Fundacja Ocalenie
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“On the American side, the legislative and executive powers have made it clear to Warsaw that proceeding with this law won't go without consequences to Polish-American relations. Pushing for the law regardless of these clear messages means that PiS [Law and Justice party] doesn't care anymore about maintaining a good relationship between Poland and the U.S.”

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Policy director of the think tank Globsec
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“In response to the groundless expulsion of the Polish diplomat by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has decided today in accordance with the principle of reciprocity and in coordination with Germany and Sweden to consider the Russian diplomat working at the Russian Consulate General in Poznań as a persona non grata.”

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Tweet of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland
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“Instead, they serve only to damage women's health by pushing abortions underground or forcing women to travel to foreign countries to access abortion care they need and to which they have a right.”

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Senior Research Adviser at Amnesty International
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“Due to its position, Poland cannot be neutral. Either it is in the family of Western civilization or among the authoritarian dictatorships of the East. If you cause Poland to lose gigantic money for further development and reconstruction, if you also lead us out of our European home, history and the people will not forgive you.”

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Poland Senate Speaker and member of the opposition Civic Platform party
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“This is an issue that will determine if Poland is a sovereign subject in the EU community, or it will be politically and institutionally enslaved. It’s not about a rule of law … but about political and institutional slavery.”

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Poland's justice minister
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“Our protest refers to the violation of the constitution … the activity of the public television, which supported one of the candidates [meaning the incumbent, Andrzej Duda] and discredited [rival candidate] Rafal Trzaskowski … and violations of correct conduct by government administration bodies, which supported only one of the candidates.”

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Member of the opposition party Civic Coalition
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“For the cosmopolitan tradition in Polish culture, the social hierarchy is built on contempt for those considered to be less cultured, a deeply rooted attitude that originates in the contempt felt by the gentry for the peasantry. For the rightwing tradition, on the other hand, the social hierarchy is based on ethnicity, manifesting itself as hostility towards minorities, whether it be Jews, Muslim migrants, or in the case of the present campaign, members of the LGBT community. We have seen a clash of these two attitudes during the campaign.”

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Sociologist at the University of Warsaw a leftwing MP
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“He [Jarosław Kaczyński] wants to create a Catholic state of the Polish nation. His vision is that of Salazar, or rather Franco, but adding strong support from the US. He [Kaczyński] thinks he's creating Bavaria [a German region] - strong traditions and a modern economy, but, actually, what might come out of this is Franco's Spain”

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MEP with Polish opposition party Civic Platform and former Poland's foreign minister
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