nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230712-231128-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230712s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230712-231128-0 doi eng 342 23 Pohjankoski, Pekka Author aut (orcid)0000-0001-5927-7846 Contesting the Ultimate Leverage to Enforce EU Law - Poland brings annulment actions against the Commission’s powers to recover penalties by offsetting Pohjankoski, Pekka Verfassungsblog 2023-07-12 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier By now it has become clear that Poland is not willing to discharge the definitive judicial penalties of over EUR 600 million which the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ordered it to pay for failing to observe coercive interim measures. When the Commission announced it would proceed to set off the outstanding amounts against money due to Poland from the EU budget, the Polish government vowed to fight the recovery ‘with all legal means’. Recently, Poland has put its money where its mouth is. It has brought four cases before the General Court to challenge the recovery. These actions have thus far evaded closer scrutiny in the legal blogosphere. However, they contain a significant challenge to the EU’s powers to enforce judicial penalties against Member States, namely as regards recovery by offsetting. As the cases raise issues which may have repercussions beyond these proceedings, this post casts a closer look at Poland’s applications and analyses their potential broader significance. CC BY-SA 4.0 Enforcement European Commission muzzle law Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/contesting-the-ultimate-leverage-to-enforce-eu-law/ raw object