Hungary and Poland find a way to block the EU’s new seven-year budget and Covid-19 recovery fund. The European Union is facing an almost unprecedented crisis after...
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European Commission launches new infringement procedure against Poland while election row rumbles on
The European Commission has launched new infringement procedures against Poland over what it sees as the continued erosion of the rule of law in the country...
Poland’s Supreme Court ruled on January 23 that hundreds of judges who had been appointed under a new set of rules introduced by the ruling Law and Justice party...
Judges from at least 14 European countries will march in Warsaw on January 11 in defence of the rule of law in Poland, as the Polish Senate considers a law which would...
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on November 19 that it is up to Poland’s Supreme Court to decide if a newly-created disciplinary chamber is independent...
Grzegorz Schetyna, leader of the Civic Platform (PO), Poland’s largest opposition party, has criticised the candidates put forward by the ruling Law and Justice party...
Przemysław Radzik, the deputy disciplinary spokesperson for the judges of Poland’s common courts, has asked for security after becoming caught up in a scandal that...
UPDATE: Mr Piebiak resigned from his post on the evening of August 21. Yet another scandal has hit the Polish ruling party Law and Justice (PiS), just 52 days before...
The European Court of Justice has ruled that the Polish government broke EU law by forcing the judges of the Supreme Court of Poland into early retirement, saying that...
Polish President Andrzej Duda signed legislation on the evening of December 17 which reinstates Supreme Court judges who were forced into early retirement. The European...
Poland has been suspended from the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary (ENCJ) as a result of the Polish government refusing to take any action following the...
Poland is now closer than ever to having to face the European Court of Justice over its controversial law forcing Supreme Court judges to early retirement. On August 14...