BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Poland’s conflict with Brussels over a court docket ruling that questioned the supremacy of European Union legislation has been added to the agenda of a leaders’ summit this week on the request of a number of international locations that see it as a critical disaster for the bloc.

“We’ll … contact upon current developments associated to the Rule of Regulation throughout our working session,” European Council President Charles Michel mentioned in a letter to leaders of the 27 member states forward of the Oct. 20-21 summit he’ll chair.

A senior EU diplomat mentioned 12 international locations had requested for the matter to be mentioned on the assembly in Brussels, along with the spike in power costs and the COVID-19 pandemic.

“There’s a concern that this might result in a scenario through which our agenda is thrown into disarray,” one other senior EU diplomat mentioned, including that the stand-off with Poland may very well be mentioned early within the summit to “clear the air”.

Poland’s relations with the EU went from unhealthy to worse on Oct 7 when its Constitutional Tribunal dominated that components of EU legislation had been incompatible with the Polish structure.

Brussels has lengthy accused Poland’s nationalist authorities of undermining its judiciary’s independence, however the ruling calls into query the authorized pillar on which the EU stands and has raised fears that Poland may finally exit the bloc.

Poland says it has no plans for a “Polexit” and, not like Britain earlier than its Brexit referendum in 2016, standard assist for EU membership stays excessive within the japanese European nation.

European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen, branding the Polish tribunal’s ruling as “a direct problem to the unity of the European authorized order”, on Tuesday laid out three choices for a response to Warsaw, starting from authorized motion to a minimize in funding a suspension of its EU voting rights.

Individually, the president of the EU’s parliament mentioned on Wednesday he had requested his authorized division to start out getting ready a lawsuit towards the bloc’s government, the European Fee, for its failure to use new guidelines that will halt funding from the EU finances to Poland.

He needs the Fee to use a so-called Conditionality Regulation, which permits the for the suspension of funds to member states the place the rule of legislation is below risk.

“The European Union is a neighborhood constructed on the ideas of democracy and the rule of legislation. If these are below risk in a member state, the EU should act to guard them,” he mentioned in a press release.

(Reporting by Jan Strupczewski, John Chalmers, Gabriela Baczynska and Philip Blenkinsop Writing by John Chalmers)