Sir, – As regards Poland, the reality is that the governing Law & Justice Party in that country has embarked on a path to create a de facto one-party state, hence its elimination of an independent Polish judicial system. It’s this that’s at the root of its disputes with the European Union.
Thus it’s foolish for David Smith (Letters, October 27th) and other eurosceptics to ally themselves with this Polish government, assuming that their enemy’s enemy is their friend.
The Poles and allies don’t have an argument. International treaties and agreements between countries aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on if a signatory country can just deviate from them by enacting domestic legislation. Thus in signing them, a country accepts their taking precedence over domestic law.
Ultimately the EU exists as a series of treaties and agreements and the member states (including Poland) have agreed to be bound by them.
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Poland leaving the EU would mean no more billions in net transfers and 80 per cent of Polish exports is with their EU partners; the Law & Justice Party can’t afford to wreck all that.
Therefore they will keep trying to have it both ways and will keep promoting specious arguments tempting eurosceptics elsewhere into unwise support.
– Yours, etc,
JOHN FLAHIVE,
Alexandra Grove,
London.