The European Commission is still not ready, in response to the repeated infringements of the rule of law in Poland, to take the step of triggering the process (article 7 of the Treaty of EU) which could ultimately lead to stripping the country of its voting rights at the Council of the EU.
Instead, it has decided to go no further than to send Warsaw more recommendations on the situation of the rule of law and its reforms of the Constitutional Court.
Frans Timmermans, the First...