Justice Min hopes top court "will behave properly" in EU law primacy case

Poland's justice minister has said that he hopes the country's Constitutional Tribunal "will behave properly" and confirm that the Polish constitution takes primacy over EU law. The Constitutional Tribunal is due to meet on Thursday to continue a sitting adjourned earlier this month to decide on the primacy issue. A ruling in favour of the Polish constitution could further strain relations with Brussels because the primacy of EU law over national law is a tenet of EU membership. "I hope that the Constitutional Tribunal will confirm the supremacy of the Polish constitution over EU law," Zbigniew Ziobro said on Monday, referring to the prime minister's motion asking the top court to check if three points of the Treaty on the European Union were compatible with the Polish constitution.