On Monday 6 November, the First Vice President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, urged the Polish authorities to meet the Commission’s requests regarding certain controversial legal reforms triggered by the introduction of the “Rule of law” mechanism at the beginning of 2016. The First Vice President urged them to cooperate, failing which it could prove necessary to use the final remaining instruments the Commission possesses but has still not used, namely, Article 7 of the...