Top EU Court Loosens Rules for Legal Representation
A Polish professor can legally represent the University of Wrocław in a dispute over grant money despite teaching there, the European Union’s highest court ruled Tuesday.
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Fight Over Rule of Law in Poland Intensifies
For the past four years, Poland has been at the heart of a uniquely European fight between nationalist politicians and European Union institutions over who gets to decide how an EU nation’s laws are made and its courts are run.
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Polish Parliament OKs Law Allowing Gov’t to Punish Judges
Poland’s lawmakers gave their final approval Thursday to legislation that will allow politicians to fire judges who criticize their decisions, a change that European legal experts warn will undermine judicial independence.
Read moreBannon Protege Loses Case Against Liberal Polish Newspaper
An American conservative activist and Steve Bannon protege lost a defamation case Friday against a Polish journalist who described him as “Trump’s man” and part of a global war against democracy by the political right.
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Bird Flu Kills 25,000 Turkeys in Eastern Poland, Sparks Cull
Authorities in eastern Poland say bird flu is responsible for the deaths of at least 25,000 turkeys in poultry farms near the country’s borders with Ukraine and Belarus.
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Polish Plan to Punish Judges Who Dissent Triggers Protests
New legislation being pushed by Poland’s populist ruling party that allows judges to be fired for dissenting with the government violates both judicial independence and the primacy of European Union law, a Polish parliamentary office warned Wednesday.
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Polish Gov’t Defends Law to ‘Discipline’ Judges, Amid Outcry
Poland’s right-wing governing party on Friday defended its heavily criticized plans to impose new restrictions on judges, saying it wants to “discipline” a “caste” of judges that has become too engaged in politics.
Read moreEU High Court Drives Into Spat Over Dutch Speeding Ticket
A Polish man learned a valuable lesson at the European Court of Justice on Thursday: When you sell your car, call the DMV and remove your name from the registration before you turn over the keys.
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Deadly Swine Flu Outbreak Breaks Out in Poland Near Germany
Poland’s agriculture minister says 21 wild boars have died as a result of an outbreak of African swine fever close to the German border.
Read morePoland Approves Controversial Judges to Constitutional Court
Poland’s parliament elected three ruling party nominees as judges to the constitutional court, including two widely denounced by opposition lawmakers, raising concerns about the court’s independence.
Read moreEU High Court Punts on Legality of Polish Court Reform
While there are reasons to question the independence of a new judicial panel created by the right-wing Polish government and tasked with meting out discipline to judges, Europe’s highest court ruled Tuesday it’s a matter best decided by Polish courts.
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Chicken ‘Billionaire’ Poland Is Europe’s Poultry King
In what looks like a Niagara Falls of yellow feathers, thousands of chicks cascade down a conveyor belt in central Poland.
Read moreEU Court Shreds Sex-Based Retirement Law for Polish Judges
Europe’s highest court cracked the whip on Poland’s ruling populists Tuesday, overruling the government’s attempt to force women out of the judiciary sooner than their male counterparts.
Read moreLegal Opinion: Poland, Hungary, Czechs Broke EU Migrant Law
With overcrowded Greek migrant camps facing explosive new problems, a top EU legal adviser said Thursday that Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic broke European Union law by refusing to comply with a refugee quota program meant to address such challenges.
Read morePoland’s Nationalist Party Wins Big in Elections
Poland’s ruling conservative nationalist party won parliamentary elections on Sunday, a result that likely will lead it to seek to exert even more control over the country’s judiciary and deepen a showdown with the European Union.
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Polish Politician Rescues Child and Father From Burning Car
A left-wing party leader in Poland has rescued a 2-year-old boy and his father from a burning car, winning praise across the political spectrum days before a national election.
Read morePoles Who Saved Jews During Holocaust Honored in Warsaw
A U.S.-based Jewish foundation honored Polish gentiles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, a number that grows smaller each year, with U.S. and Israeli diplomats also paying their respects at the event Sunday in Warsaw to the elderly Poles who put their lives in danger to save others.
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Girls Only: Polish Village Waits for the Birth of a Boy
A county mayor in southwestern Poland is promising a surprise award for the couple who next have a boy in a village where only girls have been born for nearly a decade.
Read moreRule of Law in Poland
Wading into the fray of what many call a constitutional crisis, the European Court of Human Rights asked Poland on Wednesday to answer whether purported judicial reforms – in this case appointing judges to a judicial watchdog board rather than allowing the judiciary to elect them – violates the civil rights of judges thrown off the board.
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EU High Court Blocks Forced Retirement of Polish Judges
A scheme by Poland’s parliament and its president to overhaul the judiciary by forcing older judges into retirement is unconstitutional and is an affront to the rule of law, the European Court of Justice ruled Monday.
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