On Friday 22 October, EU leaders publicly returned to the issue of Poland and the Polish Constitutional Tribunal’s judgment of 7 October, which they had discussed for 2 hours the previous day, and reiterated their concerns about the judgment, which calls into question key articles of the EU Treaties (see EUROPE B12817A2).
The President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, recalled that this judgment not only puts at stake the principle of the independence of the judiciary, but also...