During the evening of Thursday 6 February, two days after the Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a controversial new law, Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, met Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki for a meeting where, in theory, they were due to discuss the forthcoming EU summit on the multiannual financial framework.
The law in question contains new provisions on the disciplinary regime for judges who are critical of reforms. In December, the Commission...