There’s a dirty not-so-secret truth about the EU’s fight with Poland over the rule of law that almost no one in the EU institutions wants to admit aloud: It’s unwinnable.
- David M. Herszenhorn, Lili Bayer and Maïa de La Baume
- Politico
And perhaps the only thing that makes that bearable, especially for European Commission officials dealing with the issue, is a parallel truth: Poland can’t win either.
The legal remedies available to the Commission, including a new, yet-to-be-triggered enforcement mechanism that could restrict the disbursal of EU budget funds, are insufficient — limited, time-consuming, cumbersome…
But the political…