The decision deepens an impasse over the court between the government and the opposition-aligned president.
The decision deepens an impasse over the court between the government and the opposition-aligned president.
The decision was welcomed Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who said it must immediately be enforced.
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Questions still remain over how the tribunal will function given its internal disputes.
“Some of the Brussels elite” are trying to expand the EU’s competencies, adds the Polish government’s spokesman.
The judges argue that the chief justice’s term expired last month, but she denies this and has been supported by the government.
The Constitutional Tribunal contains improperly appointed judges who “infected it with unlawfulness”, finds the Supreme Administrative Court.
But Krystyna Pawłowicz also called on Tusk to stop “giving reasons for such jokes”.
The Constitutional Tribunal was ruling in response to a request by the justice minister.
The ruling was welcomed by the justice ministry but an expert says it “puts Poland dangerously close to Russia”.
Stanley Bill talks with legal expert Anna Wójcik about Poland’s ongoing conflict with the EU.
However, the European Commission says it expects Poland to “fully respect and implement” them.
A long-running dispute over the rule of law intensified today following conflicting rulings.
The justice minister has condemned the European Commission’s “obnoxious, insolent and colonialist attitude” towards Poland.
The ruling is the first European judgement on the contentious issue.