GDAŃSK, Poland — Poland’s de facto ruler, Jarosław Kaczyński, is betting he can get away with emasculating his country’s constitutional court without incurring European Union sanctions.
To be sure, things are looking up for the conservative nationalist. Under President Barack Obama, the United States joined the EU in criticizing the weakening of the rule of law in Poland. His successor, Donald Trump, is more likely to give a pass to Kaczyński, a fellow anti-establishment nativist.
Yet Europe has plenty of tools it could use to help Poles resist a dismantling of their liberal democracy without having to resort to the implausible “nuclear …read more
Source: European Voice
