The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) supports the European Commission's decision to trigger the 'article 7' procedure of the Treaty of the European Union to enforce the rule of law in Poland, but calls for the Polish regions to be left unaffected by any sanctions, in an opinion adopted on Thursday 1 February by 77 votes to 39 with 26 abstentions.
In the opinion, the members of the Committee reiterated their opposition to the ex-post political conditionality that would, as they put...