SW News: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has expressed support for the recent Polish Constitutional Court ruling that certain EU laws are incompatible with the Constitution. On Saturday, the prime minister signed a decree expressing solidarity with the Polish court’s ruling. Orban said that EU institutions should respect the sovereignty of member states.

The move by the Polish Constitutional Court has irked the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen who has expressed great worry about the judgment. She said that the Commission would do all things possible to ensure that the EU law has precedence. The governments of Poland and Hungary champion Christian values, traditional values and the Christian heritage of Europe. The right-leaning governments in both nations have clashed with the EU over their uncompromising stand when it comes to opposing LGBT ideology, intake of migrants and judicial independence.

Budapest made it clear that the court in Poland took the decision because of the poor practice of EU institutions that try to take away specific responsibilities resting with member states that had never been conferred on the Union before. "The primacy of EU law can only apply in those areas where the EU has powers; the framework for this had been set out in the EU's treaties," the government spokesperson said, citing the decree signed by Orban.

Both Poland and Hungary have been close allies as both governments share similar goals and values. They have also stood united when it comes to voicing their opposition to what they see as EU efforts to impose ideologies that conflict with the Christian patrimony of both countries. The two countries also back each other in the EU when they make their stance clear on controversial issues such as migration and LGBT agenda.

The Constitutional Court took up the case after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki sought clarity on whether EU institutions could prevent the country from reorganizing its judiciary.