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New Polish PM defends judicial reforms
By EUobserver
New Polish PM, Mateusz Morawiecki, has defended his PiS party's attempt to seize control of the judiciary and its crackdown on independent media. He told press at a summit in Brussels Thursday that French leader Emmanuel Macron would "understand" why he was "unhappy" that most of today's Polish judges were part of the old Communist regime. He added a Polish regulator who fined a PiS-critical TV station was politically "autonomous".