Poland's Top Judge Rings Alarm as Populist Makeover Takes Hold
- Supreme Court warns ‘terrifying’ system is replacing democracy
- Poland is at loggerheads with EU over judicial independence
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As Italy’s new government prepares to challenge the European Union, Poland has a timely lesson for how quickly a particular brand of politics can change a country.
Poland is so far the biggest example of how the sort of populism pioneered by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has inspired anti-establishment firebrands across Europe. With the new Italian cabinet’s euroskeptic rhetoric and budget-busting spending plans spooking financial markets, the concern is those tendencies are spreading and will undermine the world’s biggest trading bloc.