The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union warns that it threatens member states’ rights to decide their own family laws.
The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union warns that it threatens member states’ rights to decide their own family laws.
However, the mayor admits that they cannot do so until the government updates the registry system.
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The ruling has been welcomed as “extremely important” by Poland’s justice minister.
The Polish court accused the EU official of “blatant encroachment on [its] exclusive competences”.
The same chamber is due to rule on 11 January on the validity of the October parliamentary elections.
The case was brought by a Polish same-sex couple who married in Germany.
“The Polish government will not allow Brussels’ diktat,” says the climate minister.
The ruling affects 130,000 cases pending before Polish courts in a dispute between banks and the borrowers of mortgages in foreign currencies.
The climate ministry claims that 35,000 tonnes of waste from Germany has been illegally dumped in Poland.
Ruling party politicians accused the CJEU of “interfering” in Poland’s internal affairs at the behest of “foreign organisations”.
Polish banks’ shares fell after the opinion was published.
The European Commission says that Poland’s constitutional court has “violated EU law”.
The ruling is likely to have consequences for anti-discrimination rules in Poland regarding self-employed workers and sexual orientation.
“If there is no such money, we will go to court…Our lawyers are working on this,” says a deputy minister.