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This week, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill talks with Poland’s deputy foreign minister Paweł Jabłoński about controversies over rule of law in Poland and the ongoing conflict over the EU budget.
They discuss the multiple changes Poland’s PiS-led ruling coalition has made to the judiciary, including the constitutional court and the judiciary council, as well as the proposal to tie rule of law conditionality to the EU budget and Poland’s ensuing veto of the budget.
NOTE: In the discussion, reference is made to a PiS motion to the Constitutional Tribunal of 23 October 2015. Click here to download the document (in Polish).
Also check out our previous episode on the women’s rights protests against Poland’s recent abortion ruling.
Producer: Sebastian Leśniewski
Main image credit: Krystian Maj / KPRM (CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0).
Stanley Bill is the founder and editor-at-large of Notes from Poland. He is also Professor of Polish Studies and Director of the Polish Studies Programme at the University of Cambridge. He has spent more than ten years living in Poland, mostly based in Kraków and Bielsko-Biała.
He is the Chair of the Board of the Notes from Poland Foundation.
