IPSEs IN THE LAST 24H
  • Janet Yellen
    Janet Yellen “U.S. and European support for Ukraine has been essential for Ukraine's resistance to Russia's invasion. And let me be clear: It is also critical for the security of the American and European people. If we stand by as dictators violate territorial integrity and flout the international rules-based order, they have no reason to stop at their initial targets. They will keep going. The U.S. and Europe must show that Russia cannot outlast their resolve to defend a rules-based order that took them decades to shape. This includes the need to crack down on Russian sanctions evasion and provide Ukraine the funding to equip its military, fund critical government services and ultimately rebuild once the conflict ends. That's why I believe it's vital and urgent that we collectively find a way forward to unlock the value of Russian sovereign assets immobilized in our jurisdictions for the benefit of Ukraine. This will be a key topic of conversation during G7 meetings this week.” 19 hours ago
  • Antony Blinken
    Antony Blinken “We reject the prosecutor's equivalence of Israel with Hamas. It is shameful.” 19 hours ago
  • Joe Biden
    Joe Biden “The ICC prosecutor's application for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders is outrageous. And let me be clear: Whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence - none - between Israel and Hamas. We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security.” 19 hours ago
  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy
    Volodymyr Zelenskiy “Western allies are taking too long to make key decisions , opens new tabon military support for Ukraine. Every decision to which we, then later everyone together, comes to is late by around one year. Russians are using 300 planes on the territory of Ukraine. We need at least 120, 130 planes to resist in the sky. You can't provide that right now? OK ... returning to the planes that you have on the territory of neighbouring NATO countries: raise them up ... shoot down targets, protect civilians. Can they do this? I'm sure that yes. Is this an attack by NATO countries, involvement? No.” 19 hours ago
  • Balakrishnan Rajagopal
    Balakrishnan Rajagopal “On the request by the ICC Prosecutor for warrants: against Hamas, the charges of hostage taking and killing likely to stand but not others. Against Israeli leaders, all charges likely to stick. And missing charges include attacks against various civilian objects including homes!” 21 hours ago
  • Hadja Lahbib
    Hadja Lahbib “The request submitted by the Court's prosecutor, Karim Khan, for arrest warrants against both Hamas and Israeli officials is an important step in the investigation of the situation in Palestine. Belgium will continue to support the essential work of international justice to ensure that those responsible for all crimes are held accountable.” 21 hours ago
  • Bezalel Smotrich
    Bezalel Smotrich “We haven't seen such a show of hypocrisy and hatred of Jews like that of the Hague Tribunal since Nazi propaganda.” 21 hours ago
  • Benny Gantz
    Benny Gantz “Drawing parallels between the leaders of a democratic country determined to defend itself from despicable terror to leaders of a blood-thirsty terror organisation [Hamas] is a deep distortion of justice and blatant moral bankruptcy.” 21 hours ago
  • Geoffrey Nice
    Geoffrey Nice “I'm pleased to see that the law is now occupying the place it should. Until now, politics has been suspected of holding back the application of the law and in a way that's been very unsatisfactory - now the law is saying it's going to play its part, so that's a good thing. Don't prejudge the issue, it's an application for arrest warrants by Mr Khan in respect to people on both sides and we wait for the judges decision whether to confirm or not.” 21 hours ago
  • Sami Abu Zuhri
    Sami Abu Zuhri “The decision by the ICC prosecutor to seek arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders equates the victim with the executioner. the ICC decision gives encouragement to Israel to continue its war of extermination in Gaza.” 21 hours ago
  • James Bays
    James Bays “The ICC deals with only serious crimes but when you hear what is detailed on both sides, it really is sobering. On the Israeli side, he is naming the prime minister and the defence minister but says this was a state policy, this was official government policy to use starvation as a method of war. I think it is interesting that he's decided to make this public at this stage because the other important decision by Khan [Karim Khan] in the last couple of years is when he brought an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin and his children's commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, in March 2023. At that stage, there were arrest warrants. We're not at this stage; he's gone public saying there should be arrest warrants and he needs to go to the judges. Last time, he had already gone to the judges and it was made public that the judges had approved the recommendation. I can't tell you the reason why, but perhaps he's trying to force an end to the violence by speaking out as early as possible and trying to force efforts for a ceasefire. That seems to be a possibility - why he's decided to act this way.” 21 hours ago
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Poland

Page with all the IPSEs stored in the archive related to Poland.
The IPSEs are presented in chronological order based on when the IPSEs have been pronounced.

“There is the risk of a de-facto exit of Poland from the EU. This is not a technical or a legal question. This is a highly political topic that adds to a long list of provocations aimed at the EU.”

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French Minister of State for European Affairs
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“Polish authorities had engineered an (unconstitutional) Polexit from EU legal order to establish a Soviet-style justice system so autocratisation can happen undisturbed.”

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Professor of European law at Middlesex university
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“Poland is saying goodbye to the European legal order. The EU cannot transfer billions to a member state without being able to legally ensure that the money reaches those for whom it is intended.”

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German politician and member of the European Parliament (Green party)
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“The primacy of constitutional law over other sources of law results directly from the constitution of the Republic of Poland. Today (once again) this has been clearly confirmed by the constitutional tribunal. The ruling does not affect any areas where the EU has competences delegated in the treaties.”

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Polish government spokesman
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“EU states must not stand by idly when the rule of law continues to be dismantled by the Polish government. Neither can the European Commission. Our money can't finance governments which mock and negate our jointly agreed rules. By declaring that the EU treaties are not compatible with Polish law, the illegitimate constitutional tribunal in Poland has put the country on the path to Polexit.”

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Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament (European People's Party)
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“This is a legal revolution. Admittedly it's a captured court [Poland's constitutional tribunal], but this is furthest step towards a legal exit from the EU ever taken by a national court.”

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Professor of international and European law at Erasmus university in Rotterdam
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“An open and frank discussion with Polish Minister of the Interior Mariusz Kamiński on the situation at the Polish - Belarus border. The desperation of the Lukashenko regime is clear. As is their lack of respect for vulnerable people. The aggression from the Lukashenko regime deserves a firm and united response from EU. Poland, as a strong EU Member State, can show that the capacity to protect the border can be matched with the ability to respect EU fundamental rights and obligations.”

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EU Commissioner for Home Affairs
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“The dire situation facing the Afghans on the border is one that the Polish government has created. The declaration of 'the state of emergency' is illegitimate and must be lifted. The situation at the country's borders does not constitute a public emergency by European and international definitions. Forcing back people who are trying to claim asylum without an individual assessment of their protection needs is contrary to international and EU law. The introduction of new laws and measures that attempt to legalize pushbacks do nothing to change that. People have requested asylum in an EU country, an EU member state is blatantly violating their rights and the EU must act swiftly and firmly to call out these flagrant abuses of EU and international law.”

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Director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office
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“The news, which we have feared would come for weeks now, came today. Everybody who knows what happens at the border knew that these cruel practices will eventually lead to the loss of life. It's getting colder by the day. In the area where a state of emergency was declared, there is no control over the actions of the authorities. There will be more deaths. But we might not learn about all of them.”

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Statement by the human rights group Fundacja Ocalenie
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“On the American side, the legislative and executive powers have made it clear to Warsaw that proceeding with this law won't go without consequences to Polish-American relations. Pushing for the law regardless of these clear messages means that PiS [Law and Justice party] doesn't care anymore about maintaining a good relationship between Poland and the U.S.”

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Policy director of the think tank Globsec
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“In response to the groundless expulsion of the Polish diplomat by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has decided today in accordance with the principle of reciprocity and in coordination with Germany and Sweden to consider the Russian diplomat working at the Russian Consulate General in Poznań as a persona non grata.”

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Tweet of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland
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“Instead, they serve only to damage women's health by pushing abortions underground or forcing women to travel to foreign countries to access abortion care they need and to which they have a right.”

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Senior Research Adviser at Amnesty International
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“Due to its position, Poland cannot be neutral. Either it is in the family of Western civilization or among the authoritarian dictatorships of the East. If you cause Poland to lose gigantic money for further development and reconstruction, if you also lead us out of our European home, history and the people will not forgive you.”

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Poland Senate Speaker and member of the opposition Civic Platform party
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“This is an issue that will determine if Poland is a sovereign subject in the EU community, or it will be politically and institutionally enslaved. It’s not about a rule of law … but about political and institutional slavery.”

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Poland's justice minister
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“Our protest refers to the violation of the constitution … the activity of the public television, which supported one of the candidates [meaning the incumbent, Andrzej Duda] and discredited [rival candidate] Rafal Trzaskowski … and violations of correct conduct by government administration bodies, which supported only one of the candidates.”

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Member of the opposition party Civic Coalition
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“For the cosmopolitan tradition in Polish culture, the social hierarchy is built on contempt for those considered to be less cultured, a deeply rooted attitude that originates in the contempt felt by the gentry for the peasantry. For the rightwing tradition, on the other hand, the social hierarchy is based on ethnicity, manifesting itself as hostility towards minorities, whether it be Jews, Muslim migrants, or in the case of the present campaign, members of the LGBT community. We have seen a clash of these two attitudes during the campaign.”

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Sociologist at the University of Warsaw a leftwing MP
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“He [Jarosław Kaczyński] wants to create a Catholic state of the Polish nation. His vision is that of Salazar, or rather Franco, but adding strong support from the US. He [Kaczyński] thinks he's creating Bavaria [a German region] - strong traditions and a modern economy, but, actually, what might come out of this is Franco's Spain”

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MEP with Polish opposition party Civic Platform and former Poland's foreign minister
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