EU official hopes for quick resolution to rule-of-law row with Poland
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
11.04.2018 15:54
European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans said on Wednesday the EU’s executive and Warsaw were working constructively in the hope of finding a quick resolution to Brussels’ concerns over the state of the rule of law in Poland.
Frans Timmermans. Photo: EPA/OLIVIER HOSLET
Timmermans said he hoped for a significant step forward in the coming days and weeks.
Timmermans visited Warsaw on Monday to hold talks with top officials on disputed legal changes carried out by the country's conservative government.
The European Commission, the executive arm of the 28-nation European Union, in December took the unprecedented step of triggering Article 7 of the EU Treaty against Poland, stepping up pressure on Warsaw over controversial changes to the country’s justice system.
But the head of the Polish Prime Minister’s Office, Michał Dworczyk, said on Sunday that initial signals from Brussels indicated that recent Polish proposed adjustments to the judicial reforms had been “positively assessed by politicians and officials in the European Union.”
In an effort to accommodate some of the EU executive’s recommendations over changes to the court system in Poland, the ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party recently came forward with a series of legislative initiatives to modify disputed laws regulating the work of the country's common court system and the Supreme Court.
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Source: PAP