A doubt about the independence of the judiciary in Poland is not sufficient in itself to demonstrate the existence of a real risk of a breach of the fundamental rights of a person who is the subject of a request for execution of a European arrest warrant, said the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Athanasios Rantos, in his Opinion delivered on Thursday 16 December (Joined Cases C-562&563/21).
However, according to the Advocate General, the recent judgment of...