Polish PM rebuffs EU criticism of media laws

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Polish PM rebuffs EU criticism of media laws



BRUSSELS: -- Poland’s prime minister has rebuffed EU criticism of her government’s media and judicial reforms.

Beata Szyldo told MEPs that changes to the country’s constitutional court and how state media operates were an internal matter.

“Sometimes in Poland, we hear voices; voices that hurt, voices which are unfair, that are unjust to Poland and the Polish government. It is possible that these voices speak out of a lack of information, or possibly even bad will,” she said.

Szyldo added that “changes we carried out reflect EU standards and in no way differ from standards in other EU states.”

EU officials believe the changes could be a threat to the rule of law.

Poland has asked the human rights body, the Council of Europe, to assess its reforms.

However, the Council of Europe is not an EU institution.

Its investigation is separate from the European Commission probe.

Szydło’s appearance at the European Parliament comes one day after the Polish president launched Warsaw’s PR offensive in Brussels following talks with high-level EU officials, including European Council president Donald Tusk.


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[trogers]

Is EU an empire with vassal states?

[Norvid 1950]

Judeocommunism has to be destroyed and then democracy established all over with independent body to watch all politicians, economy, judicial system, truly independent free press, without influence of all leftist (judeocommunists) parties working for anybody, but Poland.

[Enoon]

“Sometimes in Poland, we hear voices; voices that hurt, voices which are unfair, that are unjust to Poland and the Polish government. It is possible that these voices speak out of a lack of information, or possibly even bad will,”

"Sometimes in Thailand, we hear voices; voices that hurt, etc................"

Edited January 20, 2016 by Enoon

[Baerboxer]

Is EU an empire with vassal states?

Some would like that to be the case - Merkel, Hollande, Juncke etc.

Interesting how it's the PC liberal left who want to create a super federal EU state, full of center control and bureaucracy. A la Soviet Union.

The fact it's likely to fail, screw up Europe for the European people and destroy centuries of culture doesn't bother them one bit. Their dream of their utopia is all that matters.

[GeorgesAbitbol]

Is EU an empire with vassal states?

They are in the EU, they agreed to follow the EU rules, receive EU subventions...

[elgordo38]

Your looking at a new Rightwingnut experiment to control the media. The media will bury the horrors in Flint Michigan and the governor who caused all this <deleted> will walk away free. Faux News has no coverage of this Rightwing boondoggle. Its all Benghazi and Hillary emails and FBI investigating the same. How do these overpaid idiots sleep at night.