The Polish Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday 7 October, in a long-awaited judgment on the principle of the primacy of European law, that Articles 1 and 19 of the EU Treaty respectively – establishing a contractual relationship between the Union and Poland and an ‘ever closer Union’ and establishing the role and composition of the Court of Justice of the EU – are not “compatible” with the Polish Constitution.
The Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, said that while it...