Thorbjørn Jagland, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE), Gianni Buquicchio, president of the Venice Commission and Nils Muiznieks, Human Rights Commissioner of the CoE, on Tuesday 18 July jointly expressed their grave concerns at the reforms of the legal system adopted on 12 July by the Polish parliament (Sejm) to modify the functioning of the Supreme Court and the National Court Register of Poland.
In a letter to Marek Kuchcinski, Speaker of the Sejm, Jagland stressed the...