Bogdan Święczkowski served as a senior prosecutor under the former PiS government and is seen as a close ally of then justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro.

Bogdan Święczkowski served as a senior prosecutor under the former PiS government and is seen as a close ally of then justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro.
The government does not recognise the court’s legitimacy and is likely to continue to ignore it.
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The European Commission “considers that there is no longer a clear risk of a serious breach of the rule of law in Poland”.
The decision is evidence of how Brussels uses rule-of-law issues as a “tool of political blackmail”, says Hungary.
He wants Andrzej Duda to apologise for “unlawful interference with his right, as a citizen of Poland, to live in a democratic state governed by the rule of law”.
“There is no longer a clear risk of a serious breach of the rule of law in Poland,” says the European Commission.
The EU has transferred almost almost 27 billion zloty (€6.3 billion) to Poland.
The National Council of the Judiciary (KRS) was at the heart of the rule-of-law crisis that emerged under PiS’s eight-year rule.
Some of the changes, such as taking away the right of citizens to nominate candidates, have been heavily criticised.
Poland’s justice minister presented in Brussels an action plan to restore the rule of law in Poland.
Meanwhile, the prosecutor general announced that he does not recognise as legitimate an order by the constitutional court to suspend the move.
Didier Reynders met with new Polish justice minister Adam Bodnar.
Afterwards, the ambassador said only that “the US and Poland share a commitment to the rule of law and judicial independence”.
The constitutional court’s decision to introduce a near-total abortion ban was one such ruling.