Brussels vs. Warsaw: The Battle for Poland’s Last Line of Defense

The globalists are making a play to destroy Polish sovereignty, with Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his pro-European Union political allies at the center of a crisis that erupted Friday.  

Takeover of the Constitutional Court

The ongoing drama began with a “forcible takeover of the seat of the Constitutional Court by the police,” as Warsaw-based legal think tank Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture described it. The move prompted an emergency in-air U-turn by President Karol Nawrocki, who was on his way to a diplomatic visit in Africa. Nawrocki confirmed his turnaround in an X post, saying, “At such a moment, the President must be in Poland. I’m interrupting my flight to Senegal. I’m returning.”

Nawrocki and Tusk are on opposite sides of the political divide.

Nawrocki’s chief of staff, Paweł Szefernaker, issued a statement encapsulating the serious nature of the situation:

Tonight, there has been a breach of the constitutional order of the Republic of Poland and a forcible takeover of a constitutional organ of the state. I call for the restoration of the legal order and for the forces of coercion sent there by the government to leave the Tribunal’s grounds.

Dramatic videos showing Nawrocki essentially forcing his way into the Court after his return have appeared on social media.

Removing Barriers to Sovereignty

The Constitutional Tribunal determines if laws, either domestic or international ones adopted by Poland, are compatible with the 1997 Polish Constitution. The fight is for control of the highest court in the country, the institution that yields the power to hold the Eurocrats at bay.

Conservative Polish lawmakers allege the ultimate point of the current chicanery is to remove the barriers that keep Poland conservative, sovereign, and immune to European Union pressure for laws that undermine national sovereignty and favor globalism. In a social media video, Dariusz Matecki, a nationalistic Polish politician who serves in the Sejm, the lower house of parliament, laid out his version of what’s going on:

In Poland we have liberal left government. Tusk, his name is Tusk, he’s a prime minister. And what is happening now with Tribunal Court, Constitutional Tribunal: they want to take over, they want to shove it with their own people. Why? Because they want to get rid of Polish currency, they want to get us into the eurozone here, because they are pushed by Germans. Also they want to get rid of our secure borders, because Germans want to spread illegals and they want to send them to Poland.

So that’s what they want to do. First of all, Polish currency, zloty, by the Constitution is our currency. They have to change the Constitution. Without Tribunal Court, without Constitutional Court, they cannot do it. So number one, they want to get rid of Polish currency. They want us to get euro and get into the eurozone, and then take our gold, the biggest reserve in European Union, to Frankfurt, to European Central Bank, German bank. They want to open the borders, and they want to make sure that when they’re gonna lose, because we’ve got elections next year, Tribunal Court, Constitutional Court will do nothing against what is going to happen.

So there’s much more reasons, but I want you to understand: they are under German influence, they are globalists, and we are fighting not only for Poland, we are fighting for Europe. Be like Poland means be strong, and our nation is strong. We’re gonna win it.

American commentator Jack Posobiec also subscribes to the mass migration angle. “Poland is one of the only EU countries that refused to take Muslim migrants for the last 10 years and rejected the agenda of the globalists to transform their nation,” he wrote on social media. “The globalists are now using state force to open the doors of Poland to mass Islamificafion like Paris and London.”

Current Court Is Pro-Poland

The Constitutional Tribunal, as made up now, is no friend of internationalism. A majority of the 15 judges who sit on it were appointed, over time, by Poland’s conservative-nationalist political party Law and Justice, or PiS. Most analysis point to 2015 as the genesis of the current crisis, which includes a series of actions that ultimately led to the Court being dominated by more conservative judges. Poland’s oldest daily newspaper, Rzeczpospolita, regarded as the country’s leading legal paper, explains in detail how the current crisis came to be.

The Tribunal Court has ruled that EU law cannot override the Polish Constitution. In 2021, the Court held that certain interpretations of the EU treaties were incompatible with the Polish Constitution, thereby asserting the supremacy of the Polish Constitution over EU law. This stemmed from concerns over certain provisions of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and the way it was interpreted by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Among the determinations the Court made was that the EU treaty said that “the Republic of Poland may not function as a sovereign and democratic state.” In response, the Court ruled that the Polish Constitution supersedes EU law, and that Polish courts can’t use EU law to question judges. The CJEU hit back, ruling that Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal violated European law with this judgment.

Friday’s Crisis

As to the events that unfolded a few days ago, Ordo Iuris laid out the following:

On the night of October 30, police took control of the Constitutional Tribunal’s headquarters in Warsaw. They stopped the Court’s own security guards; the Court’s vice president, Bartłomiej Sochański; and the Court’s director, its top administrator, from entering. One of the newer judges, someone who was appointed when Tusk’s governing coalition had the majority, Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, was already inside. She signed an order suspending the Court’s president, Bogdan Święczkowski, and the vice president.

Ordo Iuris says what Korwin-Piotrowska did was illegal. A new judge needs to take the oath in front of the president of Poland before starting work. Since she hadn’t, in Ordo Iuris’ view, she had no power to give any orders. Moreover, there’s no Polish law that lets anyone suspend the Court’s president this way.

Also, the police had no right to be there. Ordo Iuris points out, “No provision of law authorizes the police or the government directing them to take control of the Tribunal’s headquarters and deprive its organs of access to the building.” In fact, this may very well be a crime. Ordo Iuris says this could count as forcibly removing a constitutional body of the state, which carries up to 20 years in prison. It also says officials may have abused their power.

Tusk Taking Credit

Tusk took credit for the attempted coup. He posted on his X page the night police tried to take control of the Court:

Restoring the rule of law is our duty. After years of PiS-led lawlessness, this is a difficult process, sometimes painful, and it requires decisive action. There is no other way.

The Constitutional Tribunal issued its own statement, accusing everyone involved of criminal behavior:

An unlawful takeover of the Constitutional Tribunal’s website has occurred. The President of [the Court] remains Bogdan Święczkowski, and the Vice-President is Bartłomiej Sochański. Ms. Anna Korwin-Piotrowska is not a judge of the Constitutional Tribunal. All persons participating in these actions are committing the crime of a coup d’état.

As of November 1, riot police were still guarding the Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw, and hundreds of protesters have turned out to demand Swieczkowski’s reinstatement.

The Court is supposed to convene Tuesday, but the globalists and the nationalists still can’t agree on the hierarchy of authority. And, as of now, there’s no sign of Tusk backing down. Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of the PiS, said, “From today Poland becomes a police state.”