The plans will help ensure “stability and legal security for citizens”, says the justice ministry.
The plans will help ensure “stability and legal security for citizens”, says the justice ministry.
The disputed chamber is responsible, among other things, for validating election results.
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PiS calls on Poles to “help fight for the Poland of our dreams” by “reporting abuses of power”.
Tusk called on liberal democrats to “take up the fight in defence of our values and principles and also in defence of our borders and territory”.
“This is an unprecedented attack on judicial independence,” says an opposition MP.
Daniel Tilles
It must be held to the same standards as the former PiS administration.
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.