The Polish government must still bring guarantees and concrete progress in terms of independence of the judiciary to be able to exit the so-called Article 7 procedure of the Treaty that was launched by the Commission in December 2017 (see EUROPE 12003).
This is the message that European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans and the European ministers responsible for European affairs delivered to Warsaw when they met in Brussels on Monday 14 May.
However, the time period for...