The First Vice-President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, and the Polish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Witold Waszczykowski, have had a major clash over the reforms of the Constitutional Court in Poland, which is at the centre of a serious dispute between Brussels and Warsaw over the rule of law (see EUROPE 11694).
In the framework of the conference on security held in Munich last weekend, the two men discussed the reform of the constitutional court, which the Commission has...