The debate on "the Commission has to release recovery fund money to Poland so it can deal with the massive inflow of Ukranian refugees" is disingenous and misleading. 🧵 There are two different challenges here: first, how to deal with people as they first arrive. This means finding accomodation, food, schools, helping people to bring and use their savings, making it easier for them to prove their identity etc.

So, let's imagine for a minute that Ukraine somehow gets into an imaginary fast-track procedure for joining the EU. And that it also somehow complies with all the criteria for joining, which are many.🧵 * Those criteria are known as the Copenhaguen criteria and include many things, from anti-corruption legislation to market practices.

I’m going on a short, shameless self-promotion rant. Bear with me. I wrote the piece I would have liked to read when I first did a deep dive into the tricky question of Poland v the EU

https://twitter.com/cer_eu/status/1455912661363957773

This is a very complex topic that has little to do with the supremacy of EU law. And yet, that is precisely what blowed the whole thing off last month.