EU overreach and Israeli spy links: Slovenian PM lists bloc’s threats to democracy

Janez Jansa has cited, among other examples, the ongoing attempt to purge Poland’s Constitutional Court of Euroskeptics, citing “rule of law” An EU in which Brussels approved member states annulling elections, jailing their political opponents, and replacing their citizens with migrants, would have been unimaginable when Slovenia joined the bloc in 2004, the country’s Prime Minister Janez Jansa has argued.Polish President Donald Tusk’s raid on the country’s constitutional court last week was not the first authoritarian act of an EU leader since Slovenia became a member, Jansa claimed in a post on X on Saturday. When Slovenia completed its accession process more than two decades ago, he wrote, “no one imagined that in any of its member states or in the Union as a whole it would be possible” to engage “without consequences” in a series of self-harming and anti-democratic policies.The Slovenian PM listed ten examples, starting out with the annulment of Romania’s presidential election in 2004. After Euroskeptic right-wing politician Calin Georgescu won a clear victory in the first round, Romania’s Constitutional Court overturned the result, citing “irregularities” in his campaign and a...