Massive demonstrations in Poland, where yesterday hundreds of thousands of people filled the squares of several cities because they do not even want to hear about an exit from the European Union.
The demonstrators (in Warsaw there were over 100 thousand) protested against the abrupt nationalist turn impressed by the Constitutional Court and ridden by the ultra-conservative government, increasingly on a collision course with Brussels.
In Warsaw in recent days the atmosphere has become electric after the unprecedented ruling of the High Court, which sanctioned the primacy of Polish laws over Community ones. The slap in the face of the treaties provoked a concerned reaction from the Commission, exacerbating the clash over the rule of law with the populists who have ruled Poland since 2015.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that "the role of the EU is to support the development of countries, not to impose ideas contrary to their history and identity and legal solutions incompatible with their legal system". This time, however, the opposition has decided to give a signal calling the pro-European citizens to demonstrate against the sovereign drift.
"I remain in the EU" was one of the main slogans shouted in the crowded squares of Warsaw and 120 other cities. "We want an independent, European, democratic, law-abiding and just Poland. These principles are today crushed by a power devoid of conscience and morality", said the promoter of the initiative Donald Tusk. "They want to leave the EU, violate the rights of citizens", was the harsh indictment of the former president of the European Council and leader of the Civic Platform against the government of the Law and Justice party, an expression of the powerful sovereign leader Jarosław Kaczynski.
According to polls, 80% of Polish citizens want to stay in the European Union.
(Unioneonline / L)
