Polish PM says no EU laws have been broken

Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło defended controversial reforms brought in by her right-wing government, saying that no EU laws have been broken.

Szydło told Germany’s Bild newspaper that a European Commission investigation into the Law and Justice party’s actions since taking power in October 2015 will find the laws “are in no way contradictory to EU standards.”

Changes to laws on the constitutional courts and the media have led to international criticism. The new media law, which would allow the government to fill senior management positions in public media companies, is seen as a restriction on freedom of the press.

Szydło, who will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Friday, told Bild that the two countries are important partners, and that she “would like to have [Germany] on her side.”

“Sometimes we wish that decisions which concern Poland are not just taken without consulting the Polish interest,” she said, referring to the expansion of the Nord Stream gas pipeline to bring more Russian gas to Europe.

On the refugee crisis, the Polish prime minister said that “a turnaround” is needed. “It is clear that the path we follow is not the right one.”

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She added that Poland will meet its obligations to take in 7,000 refugees under the EU’s refugee relocation scheme.