The European Union said Monday it has decided to take Poland to the bloc’s top court over the overhaul of the country’s judicial system and also ask the European Court of Justice to suspend a recent law on Supreme Court judges.
Read moreIn Poland, demonstrators are dressing famous statues in a white T-shirt with a single word emblazoned on them: “Constitution.” It’s a protest that goes to the heart of a deepening constitutional conflict in Poland, where the ruling nationalist right-wing party is accused of tightening an authoritarian grip on the country’s judicial system while also stifling dissenting voices and fomenting far-right nationalism.
Read moreWhite storks that have nested in Poland are heading south for the winter earlier than usual after an especially hot, dry summer, a development experts are linking to climate change.
Read morePoland has used its powers as a European Union member to ban a human rights Ukrainian activist from all 26 countries in Europe’s Schengen area, saying she poses a security threat following allegations that she works for Russian interests.
Read moreThe Polish president has vetoed a law on elections to the European Union Parliament that would have benefited large political parties and made it harder for small parties to reach a threshold to get seats.
Read moreA petition drive seeking to overturn a decision to move a statue honoring Polish World War II victims has fallen short.
Read morePoland’s parliament voted Friday to approve legislation that will make it easier for the ruling party to appoint the president and members of the Supreme Court and influence judges.
Read morePoland’s President Andrzej Duda said Friday he is hoping to win approval for a November referendum on if and how the country’s constitution should be changed.
Read moreJudges in Poland’s top court have written to their pro-government principal complaining that she kept some of them from handling cases.
Read moreAnti-government protesters rallied in front of the Polish Supreme Court on Wednesday in an act of solidarity with the court’s president, who is being forced to retire under a new judicial overhaul.
Read moreThe European Union opened a rule-of-law procedure Monday against Poland over what it sees as flaws in Poland’s Supreme Court law, intensifying a standoff that could eventually see Poland lose its EU voting rights.
Read moreA Polish environmental group that was using a mobile-phone transmitter to track migratory movements of a stork has received a phone bill of $2,650 after the bird went missing in Sudan and someone started using the chip to make calls.
Read moreClarifying rules on the execution of European arrest warrants, a magistrate said Thursday that courts must make specific inquiries into whether the person being extradited is at risk of justice abuses.
Read moreThe head of the Jewish community in Poland says the government’s decision to scrap controversial criminal provisions in a Holocaust speech law will help restore Poland’s relations with the Jewish diaspora, with Israel and with the United States.
Read moreEuropean Union foreign ministers urged Poland on Tuesday to answer questions about the rule of law amid concerns about a government clampdown on judicial independence.
Read moreParliament officials were wrong to fine a far-right member, the European General Court ruled Thursday, for saying within the span of a year that migrants were “human garbage” and that that men are intellectually superior to women.
Read morePoland’s Supreme Court has acquitted a man who had served 18 years in prison for rape and murder of a teenager that the judges now say he couldn’t have committed, in a case that has shocked the nation.
Read morePoland’s environment authorities say a decision has been made to stop the extensive logging in one of Europe’s oldest forests that has been declared illegal by a top European Union court.
Read moreThe artist whose monument to the Katyn Forest massacre in Poland has sat in downtown Jersey City for nearly three decades filed suit Tuesday against Mayor Steven Fulop. Joined by three other residents of Polish descent, they say Fulop lacks authority to move the monument.
Read morePeople in Warsaw pinned paper daffodils to their clothes as the Polish capital held a day of commemorations Thursday on the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
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