Whatever we may think about the Polish rule of law crisis, the EU must act in its own interest
Brussels should separate the crisis at the Polish bor der from the confrontation over the rule of law, thinks Piotr Buras
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It’s a crisis of security, which could get much worse […] and it’s a very serious humanitarian crisis, because Europe can’t accept people starving & freezing on the border
We need to extend and tighten sanctions against Lukashenko’s ‘cruel regime […] there’s no way to negotiate anything.’
Piotr Buras comments on the situation on Polish-Belarussian border
The whole situation is due to Lukashenka wanting to drive Poland and the EU into a crisis
Hundreds of migrants are stuck between Poland and Belarus. The fact that the situation is getting worse is also a failure of the EU, says Piotr Buras in an interview
Lukashenko is interested in having dead bodies on the Polish-Belarusian border because, from his perspective, that would compromise European values
We need a debate about the EU in Poland
This is not EU competences versus member states’ competences; it’s democracy versus autocracy
Piotr Buras comments on the dispute over the rule of law between Poland and the European Union
Piotr Buras shares his thoughts and expertise on Poland’s constitutional dispute with the EU in SWR2’s forum podcast
For all these years, PiS has seen that it can get away with anything. There might be problems, but eventually it is able to push through the majority of things