Rau: EU overreaching in rule of law debate

The political and legal activism of European Union bodies will extend their power beyond the framework of primary EU law, and will damage the European integration process, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau said in an interview with the Polish Diplomatic Review quarterly on Friday. He called the EU's decision to link the payment of EU funds to rule of law requirement a "transgression" of the European integration process which should be eradicated by the governments of EU member states.