Polish-German journalist slams Germany's Greens party for attacking Poland: reports

The Greens want Brussels to stop Polish court reforms because they believe these threaten the independence of Poland’s judiciary, Deutsche Welle reported.

It added that the Greens last week appealed to European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans to speed up procedures against Poland.

In his opinion piece for Die Welt, Broder said that the Greens secured less than nine percent support in federal parliamentary elections last year and are the smallest club in the Bundestag, Deutsche Welle reported.

Broder said the party had overvalued its importance, Deutsche Welle reported.

“In psychiatry, such behaviour is called megalomania,” Broder said, according to Deutsche Welle.

Broder added that Poland was still “a sovereign country with a parliament established in free elections, its own government, and its own currency” and that the European Union was not a federal state but “a working community of sovereign nations,” Deutsche Welle reported.

Thousands of Polish people died from many "accelerated procedures" that took place in Poland in 1939-1945, Broder said, according to the German paper.

Rule-of-law dispute

Warsaw and Brussels remain at loggerheads after the European Commission last December took the unprecedented step of triggering Article 7 of the EU Treaty against Poland, stepping up pressure on Warsaw over controversial changes to the judicial system by the country’s ruling conservatives.

The move means that the EU’s executive wanted the bloc’s member states to declare that the rule of law in Poland is under threat.

The move could theoretically pave the way for sanctions being imposed on Poland, for example suspending its voting rights in the European Union. (vb/pk)