The European Union will begin the process of formally punishing Poland’s Law and Justice (PiS) administration for its wide-ranging reforms to judicial appointments and oversight today, with a motion tabled to sanction the Polish government using Article 7.
The plans, which PiS argues would “democratise” the process of judicial appointments, are widely seen as eroding judicial independence.
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