Poland threatens to turn ‘all our cannon’ on EU in rule-of-law row

Jarosław Kaczyński, the chair of PiS and Poland’s de facto leader, said Warsaw had ‘no reason to fulfil its obligations’ to the EU. Photograph: Sławomir Kamiński/Agencja Wyborcza.pl/Reuters

Poland’s national-conservative government has significantly toughened its rhetoric in its rule-of-law standoff with Brussels, threatening to turn “all our cannon” on the European Commission and if necessary build a coalition to unseat its president.

If the EU executive “tries to push us against the wall we will have no choice but to pull out all the weapons in our arsenal” and respond “an eye for an eye”, said Krzysztof Sobolewski, the general secretary of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party.