Likewise, there was no scrutiny of why, in previous years, other countries holding the rotating presidency—such as Sweden and France, facing challenges with mass migration; or the Czech Republic, marked by political and underworld corruption—were not subject to similar objections. Despite severe shortcomings in their rule-of-law and human rights records, the majority of MEPs have raised no issues whatsoever concerning these countries.
However, if all this is still insufficient to validate the Hungarian foreign minister’s political diagnosis regarding Brussels’ double standards, it is worth taking a brief look at the various rule-of-law crises generated by the Polish left, regarding which Brussels - for some peculiar reason- has shown an unprecedented éevel of indifference.
Regarding, for instance, the independence of the Polish judiciary, it can be said without exaggeration that the leftist coalition government under PM Tusk went much further than simply dismantling guarantees derived from institutional autonomy. Through the appointment of Adam Bodnar as attorney general and justice minister, Mr. Tusk actively contributed to the situation where conservative circles in Poland are now again speaking of a return to the era of political persecution in Warsaw. The gravity of these claims is evidenced not only by the unfortunate case of Marcin Romanowski, the former deputy minister, who was recently granted political asylum in Hungary after being arrested unlawfully despite his immunity, but also by numerous other excesses linked to Justice Minister Bodnar.
As is known, precisely a year ago, in January, two former government officials were arrested at the Polish presidential palace, despite both having received presidential pardons. Mariusz Kaminski, Poland's former interior minister, and Maciej Wasik, the former deputy interior minister, were subjected to disgraceful treatment, with several opposition politicians calling the events a coup, while former PM Mateusz Morawiecki spoke of a return to one of the darkest periods in Poland’s history, describing his fellow party members as “political prisoners.”
Finally, beyond the personal vendettas against various conservative politicians and former government officials, the Tusk government also restructured the state's functioning based on rule of law in line with its own preference.
As part of this, among other things, the parliament and government deliberately ignored the decisions of the Constitutional Court, violating the principles of the separation of powers and the rule of law; it discriminated against judges appointed after 2017, which runs counter to the Polish Constitution; and law enforcement agencies - in line with the ruling political will - were instructed to disperse opposition protests in an excessive and violent manner.
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