President Karol Nawrocki vetoed the law for the national implementation of the Digital Services Act (DSA). With this, the right-wing conservative head of state demonstratively sides with US President Donald Trump and his declared rejection of European platform regulation.
They vetoed it’s implementation in Poland. Not for the entire EU. It’s not an issue with the EU mechanisms for once.
The DSA is already european law, and as a regulation is directly applicable in every member state. In Poland too. Nawrocki can cry and bitch all he wants about that. What he blocked is the local implementation which includes e.g. appointing regulatory bodies. In effect as far as I understand it, polish citizens sadly have nobody to turn to when this law is violated, but companies in Poland are still bound by it towards complaints from other member states.
I’m gonna complain so much to Polish companies!
Can you recommend some? The only ones I had business with were pretty decent, I don’t want to complain to them.
If I remember correctly they have a time limit within which they are forced to adhere to the EU law anyway by virtue of EU treaties, right? So it’s a temporary situation and he just used it politically to look cool.
Well, they can keep not doing it. There will be fines though.
That’s what happens when a criminal, bandit, pimp and thief is chosen as a president. We are fucked here in Poland.
Sad, really sad
EU needs to change system. Those veto powers tear down the eu
Poland has used them so often for stupid reasons I kind of want other states to just create a cooler EU without them. They benefit from this alliance almost like no other country but do it disservice again and again.
Unfortunately I agree as a Pole.
The influence of Russian propaganda is so huge here, and education level is not too high here, so people believe in propaganda, and they vote for president who take care of their fears…
You know that the difference between this president and opponent was really low? And they do such stupid things because people who listened to propaganda expect from him…
There needs to be veto power, but it should be ~20-25% of the EP, not a single country.
The EU already has qualified majority on some issues. Also this has nothing to do with veto, but postponing implementation of a regulation that already is agreed upon.
I’ll add to agree that I’d love to see more things to require qualified majority instead of unanimity.
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