Donald Tusk’s decision has been rejected by the opposition and legal experts.

Donald Tusk’s decision has been rejected by the opposition and legal experts.
PiS calls on Poles to “help fight for the Poland of our dreams” by “reporting abuses of power”.
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While Poland is willing to show “some flexibility” in negotiations, it “will not back down” from certain “lines that cannot be crossed”.
“If they do not bring back this money in the coming days, they will answer for it in the manner provided for by the law,” says the opposition leader.
“The liberal-left camp that makes up the majority in the European Commission wants to change the government in Poland at all costs,” says Andrzej Duda.
The Polish government argues that it has complied with the requirement to close its disciplinary chamber for judges.
Opposition leader Donald Tusk is a “collaborator” in his “genes”, says the justice minister.
There are “fundamental legal obstacles preventing our participation in cases involving persons appointed…in a defective procedure”.
“As a result of the non-fulfilment of basic conditions, the commission cannot reimburse any expenditure submitted by Poland,” says a spokesman.
The Polish government has rejected the ruling, arguing that the European Court of Human Rights “has no competence to rule on whether a court is a court or not”.
Poland’s prime minister has pledged that his government will “strongly oppose” penalising Hungary.
The EU is carrying out “primitive blackmail aimed at forcing a change of government” in Poland, says Piotr Gliński.
Mateusz Morawiecki warned that “Berlin’s inaction seriously calls into question the value of the alliance with Germany”, whose “policies have inflicted tremendous damage on Europe”.
Aleks Szczerbiak
Amid a dispute over the rule of law and EU funds, PiS has toughened its rhetoric.