By lowering the retirement age of judges of ordinary courts and giving the Minister of Justice the discretion to extend the activity of these judges, Poland has failed to fulfil its obligations under European Union law, Advocate General Evgeni Tanchev stated in his Opinion delivered on Thursday 20 June (Case C-192/18).
In July 2017, Poland adopted a law lowering the retirement age for judges of ordinary courts, prosecutors and judges of the Supreme Court to 60 years for women and...