“Wall Street Journal”: the United States insist on Poland in terms of the Constitutional Court – Virtual Poland

• Americans want the Polish government ended the constitutional dispute
 

 • This information revealed the newspaper “Wall Street Journal”
 

 • Expectations for the US on CT were “annoyed Polish government”
 

 • Representatives of the US authorities refused to officially comment
 

“Wall Street Journal” says that “the United States insist on Poland that ended the constitutional dispute.” The newspaper points out that “diplomats say that Warsaw should undo the move”, which limited the power of the Constitutional Court.

“Diplomats USA, who were recently on a visit to Poland, said representatives of the government, they expect that Poland will adopt the recommendations Europe’s leading human rights organizations to Warsaw withdrew its recent moves to limit the powers of the highest court of the country to rule against government laws” – he writes the American newspaper.
 

“WSJ” notes that these changes have been sharply criticized in the draft opinion of the Venice Commission, which is an advisory body of the Council of Europe. The newspaper stresses that the Venice Commission considers in this project, that the change in the Constitutional Court made the ruling camp will slow down the activity of the Court, making that it becomes the “ineffective guardian of the Constitution.”
 

“WSJ” then writes, citing a “person familiar with the negotiations,” the expectation that the US withdrawal from these changes “annoyed Polish government.”

In the final part of the article “WSJ” refers to the NATO summit, which will be hosted by Poland in July and reminds that our country from years of seeking a permanent military presence of NATO.
 

The newspaper writes that the US State Department spokesman Mark Toner declined to speak about “the details of diplomatic talks with the Polish government,” but said the US lead the Polish side frank exchange of views on different issues, including ” nature and quality “of democracy in Poland.
 

Asked whether this issue could affect plans for US military or NATO, Toner said: “Poland is an ally in NATO and look forward to a successful NATO summit in July in Warsaw.” He added that he expected that the military exercises will continue. – As recently announced, President (Barack Obama), we intend to increase our commitment in Europe, including Poland, and not decrease – he stressed.
 

“WSJ” he writes at the conclusion that John Kerry considered the question of the Constitutional Court as one of the “internal challenges” Polish when I visited last month, the head of Polish diplomacy Witold Waszczykowski.
 

The newspaper quotes a statement Mark Toner, who in December last year reported that the American side raised this issue in contacts with representatives of the Polish authorities. Toner stressed then that “every democracy needs strong control mechanisms, needs to judicial independence.” He considered it the key elements of “constitutional democracy and establishing the rule of law.”