The worsening of systemic and generalised deficiencies affecting judicial independence in Poland does not justify the automatic non-execution of all European Arrest Warrants (EAWs) issued by that country, said Advocate General Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona in his opinion delivered on Thursday 12 November (Cases C-354/20 and C-412/20).
In the judgment in ‘Minister for Justice and Equality’ - delivered in 2018 in the context of the reforms of the Polish judicial system - the EU Court of...