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European Commission Prematurely Ends Rule of Law Scrutiny of Poland

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par Human Rights Watch

The European Commission decided to close the article 7 procedure against Poland on Wednesday, despite Poland’s newly elected government not having implemented all needed reforms. Article 7 is the EU’s primary treaty-based mechanism to hold accountable EU member states that undermine the bloc’s values, including by violating the rule of law.Article 7 was invoked against Poland in 2017 in response to then-governing Law and Justice party’s (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS) political take-over of the country’s justice system and its challenge to the primacy of EU over national law.The rush to end…

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