While French President Emmanuel Macron, in alliance with Italy, wants to force the member states into a closer and deeper financial union, the French opposition clearly favors Poland in the rule of law debate. The excesses of Brussels bureaucrats have thus become one of the main topics of next year's French presidential election. So much so that there is a French politician who would pay the daily fine of one million euros imposed on the Poles.

The French right shows sympathy with the Poles in this area. They had already taken a stand in favor of Warsaw in the debate related to the judicial reform, but the judgment issued on October 27 gave new momentum to the statements. Brussels fined Poland because it did not comply with the European Court's decision to suspend the operation of the Polish Supreme Court Disciplinary Council. The establishment of this authority was evaluated in the West as a reduction of the independence of the court - interestingly, in the case of Slovakia, the establishment of a similar body was welcomed...

On July 14, the Polish Constitutional Court ruled that the European Court of Justice does not have the authority to suspend any body of the Polish judiciary. And now in October, the Tálar board stated in general that European law does not take precedence over national law - which, to put it mildly, upset the pot in Brussels, but especially in the ranks of the left-liberal majority of the European Parliament. The witch hunt, which has already been used several times in connection with Hungary, started right away.

French National Coalition President Marine Le Pen posted a post on Twitter the day the fine was handed down, saying:

"I express my solidarity with the Polish people in the face of the European Union's repeated attempt to usurp powers. If I were president, I would help Poland pay the fine and then deduct the amount from our net EU contribution, which we pay to the monster that the EU has turned into."

wrote Le Pen, who welcomed both decisions of the Polish Constitutional Court, especially the October one:

"With this decision - which is in no way different from the decision of the German court in Karsruhe, which was fully accepted in the case of Germany - the judges reminded Poland of the fact that the EU, which was heading for the Jacobin dictatorship, has the right to live according to its own laws"

"The judges, with this decision - which is in no way different from the decision of the German court in Karsruhe, which was fully accepted in the case of Germany - reminded Poland of the fact that the EU, which was headed for a Jacobin dictatorship, is that every nation has the right to live according to its own laws," he wrote.

To the right of Le Pen, in the extreme political category, is Éric Zemmour, about whom the Western press writes that it is only a matter of time before he announces his presidential ambitions. Regarding the decision of the Polish Constitutional Court, he said:

"Democracy is at stake. How can we accept that the constitution - which is the basic contract of our society, the expression of the law and the general will - is of less value than the rules made by unelected officials?"

Zemmour also pointed out that the rise of EU law could also cause problems regarding the management of illegal migration, because

"significantly limits the possibilities of reducing or deporting immigrants, consequently, (...) if European countries want to pursue an effective [migration] policy, they must regain their legal sovereignty"

Despite the very harsh statements of the two politicians, none of them supports either Frexit or abandoning the euro, rather they try to position themselves along the foreign policy of strong nation states.

The interesting thing is that the opinion of the French right is also adopted by the current French centrist politicians.

Michel Barnier , who will be the candidate for head of state of the liberal centre-right, previously also argued that the judgments of the European Court should be overridden by national law in order to stop mass migration. Moreover, Barnier also talked about an immigration moratorium, which he would guarantee as a constitutional law that

"no French court can annul it by referring to the observance of international rights".

Given that not so long ago, Barnier was Brussels' chief commissioner in charge of Brexit negotiations, the domestic politician brought out the patriot in him. So much so that the above statements can be said to be even more radical than the position of the Polish Constitutional Court, which caused a general protest.

Source: korkep.sk

Cover photo: Éric Zemmour / Objeco.com