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CJEU, Poland and rule of law

New judgment: lowering the retirement age of Polish Supreme Court judges breaches EU law, due to impact on judicial independence
Full text of today's CJEU judgment that Polish law on the retirement age of Polish Supreme Court judges breaches EU law: curia.europa.eu/juris/document…
Remember further cases are pending on other aspects of the rule of law in Poland.
CJEU, EU criminal law

New judgment: EU criminal laws adopted before the Treaty of Lisbon (including the European Arrest Warrant law) don't have direct effect or supremacy over national law: curia.europa.eu/juris/document…
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Steve Peers
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1/ This Johnson surrogate keeps referring to a recent EU Commission paper which he says resolved the Irish border issues. Surprise! This claim is false.
2/ Here's the paper which I think he's referring to. It's the most recent Commission no deal paper: ec.europa.eu/info/publicati…
As I said at the time, there's no detailed discussion of Irish border issues. This is the only mention of Ireland, except for footnotes.
3/ The Commission paper does discuss greater use of customs tech by traders, but in the context of UK/EU trade generally. This facilitates trade but doesn't abolish all checks. Again, the paper makes no specific reference to checks or infrastructure on @BorderIrish
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Steve Peers
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Here's the official count: 19% of electors (well above the 10% required) signed the recall petition. Confirms hypothesis that the numbers willing to sign a recall petition correlates to the size of the majority at the last election.
North Antrim: 42% majority, 9.4% sign recall petition

Peterborough: 1.3% majority, 27.6% sign petition

Brecon and Radnorshire: 19.5% majority, 19% sign petition

Makes sense that the more people voted against the MP in the last election, the more will sign petition
Here's the results of the Brecon and Radnorshire votes since 1970. Several marginal results. I am told a chunk of Labour voters were moved out when the constituency boundaries were redrawn in 1983.
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Steve Peers
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Well.
Presumably Hoey blocked me because on the weekend I pointed out that she had tweeted out a doctored or outdated screenshot of an EU Commission press release on UK govt State aid for Channel 4. She then deleted her tweet without explanation or apology...
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Simon Cox
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On Friday, #Poland’s Gov will be in front of Court of Justice of EU arguing against Court’s interim order reinstating judges Gov is trying to depose. >
Polish Supreme Court has implemented CJEU order - but Gov is pretending judges can’t do that, see thread 2/
On Friday, CJEU should ask Polish Gov to explain itself:
- Why is Gov refusing to recognise the judges the Supreme Court has recognized?
- Why does Gov claim judges need recognition by people appointed under laws suspended by CJEU?
- Will Gov fully comply with order CJEU makes?
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Simon Cox
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#Poland: Gov using Constitutional Court (Gov-controlled?) to block Supreme Court from suspending law giving Gov control of judiciary. Thoughts from EU law PoV 1/17
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(There’s a third challenge - Commission’s proposal for *political* action by Council under article 7 of Treaty of EU.) 3/
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Simon Cox
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EU Court’s Adv-Gen opinion on #Poland #FairTrial case is out. Thread to follow curia.europa.eu/juris/document…
Irish High Court was asked by Polish Gov to extradite Mr Celmer under EU law for trial on drug charges. Irish judge ruled Poland’s Gov has seriously undermined rule of law by taking political control over judges (agreeing with Euro Commission) 2/
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#TakingUsForFools (version 2.0)
3/ The silver lining: @TimmermansEU did not fall for so-called “changes” & “concessions” or "compromises" offered by Polish authorities which can be *at best* described as cosmetic or meaningless
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Peter Foster
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The #EU decision to trigger "nuclear option" #article7 against Poland is extremely awkward for UK and bad news for a deeply divided EU leadership that lost its head when Macron got elected. A 1/thread

telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/2…
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1. The UK has invested huge amount of diplomatic capital in expanding UK-Polish relationship after #Brexit

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