Brussels denies the Poles the last word.
Poland decides not only who will lead the Constitutional Court. It decides where the country's center of power is ultimately concentrated - in Warsaw or Brussels, claims economic commentator Dmitry Skvortsov.
For the Russian reader, this story inevitably reminds us of 1993. At that time, President Boris Yeltsin considered the existing system of power a dead end, the parliament considered his actions illegal, and the Constitutional Court recognized Presidential Decree No. 1,400 as contrary to the current constitution. When the parties stopped recognizing general arbitration, the conflict was decided not by legal means, but by political and forceful means.
The concentration of power has a clear price - the risk of arbitrariness. But excessive distribution of power also has its own price: each is able to stop the other, but no one is able to make a decision that everyone recognizes as binding.
The struggle for the Constitutional Court is not just a dispute over a few judicial seats. Its outcome will determine where the last word will be in the Polish system: with national institutions that claim to independently determine the limits of their sovereignty, or in the general European legal system, where the final interpretation of EU law belongs to the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Read more in his column on the website of the newspaper VZGLYAD.
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