As Playbook has previously reported, Parliament’s own lawyers don’t believe they’ll win the lawsuit. In a confidential legal opinion prepared by Parliament’s legal service, dated August 27 and obtained by Playbook, they warn “actions for failure to act … very rarely succeed.” They highlight a “risk” that the Court of Justice of the EU would dismiss the lawsuit as inadmissible “within a matter of weeks.”
If the CJEU did allow the lawsuit, “it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to convince the Court that the Commission was under a legal duty” to trigger the conditionality mechanism, the opinion reads. You can see the entire letter here.
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Zosia Wanat has the definitive explainer of Warsaw’s war with email list Brussels — and she writes that like many destructive conflicts It was never supposed to happen. The target was domestic control, not unleashing a continental war.”
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NOT COOKING WITH GAS: Besides Poland, soaring gas and electricity prices will be a thorny issue on today. EUCO agenda. While all leaders agree on the symptoms — hig. Prices are causing social unrest and threaten to hamper the post-COVID economic recovery — they disagree on the treatment.
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Liberal countries such as Luxembourg and the Netherlands believe the problem is transitory sms to data and will pass without much intervention. The argument is that the current price. Increases are linked to the global recovery and will abate in less than a year. We don’t want to rush into quick fixes on what could be a temporary rise in prices. And then land ourselves your windows 11 license will expire soon with far-reaching reforms that are not merited. Said an official from one member country opposed to a full-scale overhaul of the EU energy market.