European Treaty: Poland champion of social issues!
(B2) Irony of fate. It is thanks to the Poles that, for the first time at European level, a trade union should be mentioned by name in the Treaty. Poland should, in fact, introduce a unilateral declaration in the future European treaty indicating its "recognition of the movement Solidarity for its contribution to the development of social and labor rights" and to proclaim its "attachment to social and labor standards" as existing at the level of Community law and guaranteed by the Charter. It's beautiful... like an angelic canon (precision: it is at the statement 53).
More prosaically, a few days before the general elections, which take place on October 21, it is a question of not angering Solidarnosc, faithful support of the Kaczynski twins in power (President of the Republic and Prime Minister). The union, already battered in its stronghold, the Gdansk shipyards, by the restructuring measures imposed by the Commission, had informed President Kaczynski a few weeks ago of its red line: not to have an opt-out as to the application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the social field. Hence this convoluted construction: Poland subscribes to the Charter of Fundamental Rights, with British reservations (the legal force of the Charter must not hinder the autonomy of interpretation of laws by national courts) but without adhering to the British social exception. A jewel (more!) of complexity.
(NGV)
