The European Commission asked the EU's highest court on Friday to freeze a ...
BRUSSELS - The European Commission asked the EU’s highest court on Friday to freeze a new Polish law that allows for the dismissal of judges who are critical of government changes to the judiciary.
The European Commission - the guardian of EU law, which trumps national laws - said it had told Warsaw several times its new legislation infringes on the independence of the courts. The Commission said its top rule of law official, the Values and Transparency Commissioner Vera Jourova, will travel to Poland next week.The EU has started an unprecedented rule-of-law process against Warsaw.
The government asked Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal, headed by Julia Przylebska - described by PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski as a “close friend” - to look into whether the Supreme Court has the right to rule on the matter.“We are concerned about the statement of the Polish authorities... The independence and legitimacy of the Constitutional Tribunal has been seriously undermined and it is no longer able to provide effective constitutional review,” it said.
The Justice Ministry said the Supreme Court decision was “invalid and was issued in gross violation of the law”, and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki also criticized the ruling.
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