Statement on Róża Thun's full name On 26 April 2009 – less than two months before the European elections – Czarnecki wrote a
blog entry, describing the "troubles" of
Róża Thun, a Polish politician and an Austrian Countess-consort, with the Polish National Electoral Commission. According to Czarnecki, the Civic Platform intended to register her candidacy under the name of
Róża Thun, On 20 May 2009, it was revealed that Czarnecki himself would appear on the ballot sheets not under his assumed Polish name of Ryszard Henryk, but as Richard Henry, since he was born in the
United Kingdom. Czarnecki stated that his situation is different, as he didn't choose his names, while Thun chose her surname by marrying her husband. Consequently, at the request of the leaders of four European Parliament factions, on 7 February 2018 by secret ballot he was dismissed from the post of vice-president of the European Parliament for "serious breaches" of the Parliament's Rules (447 MEPs voted for his dismissal, 196 against, and 30 abstained). This was the first time in the history a vice-president of the European Parliament has been dismissed. The case was reported in international media. In June 2019, the
Court of Justice of the European Union dismissed Ryszard Czarnecki's complaint about the dismissal. Róża Thun considered Czarnecki's statement humiliating. In August 2019, the District Court in Warsaw ruled that Czarnecki, by comparing Róża Thun to Nazi collaborators, violated her good name, and therefore ordered him to publish an apology to the MEP on the portal that published the original interview, as well as on his own blog, within 14 days from the judgment validation. The court also ordered Czarnecki a payment for the benefit of the two organizations mentioned, of 15 thousand zlotys each. Czarnecki announced an appeal against the sentence. ordering Czarnecki to apologize for an “inappropriate and deeply hurtful” comparison, which was unlawful, and to pay the sum ordered in the first instance for the benefit of the two organizations. The court indicated that the defendant exceeded the limits of acceptable criticism and abused the freedom of speech. ==Involvement in C.H. scandal==