Following four-plus years of assault by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, the embattled Polish judiciary may be on its last legs.
On 4 February, amid mass domestic and international protest, Polish president Andrzej Duda signed into law a deeply-controversial set of new reforms openly defying the authority of the EU's top court and seeking to prevent Polish judges from applying EU law under penalty of suspension, fines, salary cuts and dismissal.
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Already a member? Login hereElena Crespi is head of the Western Europe desk for the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), where Joshua Ratliff also works.
Elena Crespi is head of the Western Europe desk for the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), where Joshua Ratliff also works.