By depriving its national ordinary courts of the possibility to ensure that EU law is applied by an independent and impartial tribunal in all cases and by conferring jurisdiction over issues relating to the status of judges on the disciplinary chamber of the Supreme Court, the Polish government has violated EU law, Advocate General Anthony Michael Collins ruled in his opinion to the Court of Justice of the EU on Thursday 15 December (case C-204/21).
More specifically, the Advocate General...