The European Union executive is set to demand that Poland pay around 70 million euros ($80 million) of fines for failing to scrap a contentious system for disciplining judges, sources have told Reuters.
A spokesman for the European Commission separately confirmed at a news conference on Tuesday that it had received Poland's latest explanation on the dispute, one of the bloc's many battles with Warsaw over democratic standards.Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comJan.
Two sources at the Commission, speaking separately and on condition of anonymity, said the letter was in Polish, so it would need to be translated before the Commission could make a formal response.
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