EU Mulls Extending Poland Rule-of-Law Probe Unless Progress Made
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The European Commission raised pressure on Poland’s government to resolve a months-long constitutional stand-off, saying it may extend an investigation into the country’s democratic standards unless “significant progress” is made by Monday.
The EU executive has opened its first-ever probe into a member country’s rule of law over concerns that an overhaul of Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal undermined its standing as a democratic nation. Since then, the leaders of the ruling Law & Justice party have met the opposition only twice to discuss ways to resolve the crisis and refused to publish, and make binding, a verdict of the court that ruled its revamp illegal.