There is controversy in Poland about the country’s constitutional court, which cannot be described as normal for a democracy because the intentions of the current government clearly show a desire to "liquidate the rule of law", Marek Safjan, a Polish judge at the European Court of Justice, warned in an article in Poland's Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper on Saturday 20 August.
If proof were still needed that the government of the Law and Justice party (PiS) is not planning to implement the...