A preview of the fundamental legal and political issues that will be at stake Thursday — and the anger involved — was seen Tuesday when European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki confronted each other in the European Parliament.
Morawiecki remained defiant, accusing the EU of trying to change the constitutional balance of the bloc by presumption and blackmail. No sovereign state will ever consent to this. The EU would cease to be an association of sovereign states. He says that the Polish top court's ruling touched on the very same sovereignty issues Brexiters cited when campaigning for Britain to exit the EU. But some independent experts say the two rulings, Polish and German, have exposed something much more fundamental that is playing out than divisions between populists and their foes.
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European Council meeting Coronavirus pandemic In a context of newly rising infection rates from the coronavirus Delta variant in certain central and eastern European Member States, the pandemic will be discussed by the European Council for the 19th time at this meeting.
The coronavirus pandemic and the rest of the world The European Council is expected to reiterate its previous position and signal its support for international vaccine solidarity, highlighting the donation of vaccines by Member States, the financial support provided by the EU to initiatives such as COVAX , the importance of vaccine production in the EU, and support for the development of vaccine production facilities in Africa.
Energy prices The recent quadrupling of gas prices and the near doubling of energy prices led EU leaders to request an in-depth debate on energy prices, a first since October European Council meetings are prepared by the General Affairs Council. The Secretary-General of the Council provides the Secretariat of the European Council and assists the Presidency in drawing up its draft conclusions.
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