By late afternoon on Thursday 27 October, Poland had still not submitted its response to the recommendations of the European Commission that were made on 27 July under the rule of law monitoring mechanism.
On 27 July, the Commission decided to ask Warsaw for specific explanations regarding its controversial reforms of the Constitutional Tribunal, thereby triggering the second phase of the so-called "rule of law" mechanism. First Vice-President of the Commission Frans Timmermans explained...