In an urgent opinion delivered on Thursday 16 January, the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission, together with the Directorate General of Human Rights and the Rule of Law, concluded that amendments to the laws on the judiciary in Poland would further undermine the independence of the judiciary in that country.
These amendments, already adopted by the National Parliament (Sejm) on 20 December 2019, are currently under discussion in the Senate, which since November has been chaired by...