Lawsuit against the Commission by the European Parliament over Poland

His legal service European Parliament filed a lawsuit against her today Commission for non-application of the Advocacy Rules in the Court of Justice of the EU, at the request of its President, David Sassoli.

This regulation, which was adopted last December, allows the EU to suspends them payments from the EU budget to the Member States in which the rule of law is threatened, transmits the RES EIA.

“The Commission has so far refrained from using it,” the European Parliament said in a statement, adding that “” had proposed legal action».

“As requested in parliamentary resolutions, our legal service exercised recourse against the European Commission for non-application of the Regulation of Conditionality in the Court of Justice of the EU today “said the President of the European Parliament.

“We expect the European Commission to act consistently and respond to what the President has said Von der Layen during our last plenary debate on this issue. “Words must be turned into deeds,” Sassoli concluded.

The official statements of the European Parliament, and of its President, do not mention the case in which the European Commission is accused of not acting in accordance with the Regulation, but it is clear from the statements of MEPs, among other public references, that the reason for the appeal is the Polish theme.

It is worth mentioning that The EU Court of Justice recently ruled in Warsaw, also on issues related to the Union ‘s guarantees of the rule of law.

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