“The (Polish)parliament and government continue to challenge (the)position (of the constitutional tribunal)as the final arbiter of constitutional issues and attribute this authority to themselves”, the European Commission for Democracy through Law, better known as the Venice Commission, states in an opinion published on Friday 14 October.
This commission, which is made up of independent constitutional law experts, was set up in 1990 as a Council of Europe (CoE) consultative body. It...