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Poland Faces European Union Lawsuit Over Judge Discipline Rules
Poland Faces European Union Lawsuit Over Judge Discipline Rules
10 Oct 2019, 10:15 PM IST
(Bloomberg) -- The European Commission will take Poland to the European Union courts over a disciplinary regime for judges, it said Thursday, testing one of the conservative ruling party’s main policies days before a general election it’s poised to win.
Regulators said they’d seek a fast-track procedure from the EU Court of Justice. Poland’s new procedures mean "judges are not insulated from political control and thus judicial independence is violated," the EU said in a press release.
To contact the reporter on this story: Aoife White in Brussels at awhite62@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Anthony Aarons at aaarons@bloomberg.net, Peter Chapman
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