On Wednesday 13 June, European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans told MEPs in Strasbourg that the Polish authorities had still not responded to the Commission's core concerns about respect of the rule of law.
The same day, the committee of permanent ambassadors to the EU (Coreper) agreed, in line with a request from the Commission on 6 June, to organise a Poland-Commission hearing on the problems posed by the various Polish judicial reforms. This hearing, which will take...