A week after announcing them, the First Vice-President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, on Wednesday 26 July made good on his threats, issuing a new rule of law recommendation to Warsaw calling upon it to renounce any measure deemed to run counter to European criteria, on pain of seeing the so-called article 7 procedure triggered.
The Commission has given the Polish government one month to comply with both its international and its European obligations, the European official...