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THE European Court of Justice (ECJ) is set to deliver another ruling on the independence of the judiciary in Poland on Monday.
The background is a complaint filed by the European Commission in 2021, which claimed several Polish regulations violate EU law.
At issue was the independence of the Polish judiciary in reviewing EU law as well as the rights of judges to have their private lives respected.
Poland’s conservative nationalist government has been restructuring its judiciary for years, in spite of international criticism.
The European Commission has filed several lawsuits against the reforms.
Some decisions were overturned by the ECJ.
The court said that was so because Warsaw refused to implement the ECJ rulings, and the court finally imposed a fine of one million euros (1.07 million dollars) per day.
The fine was halved in the spring because the government in Warsaw has since made some changes to the judicial system.
However, new cases were already on the horizon: in February, the European Commission sued Poland again for violations of EU law by the Polish Constitutional Court. (dpa/NAN)
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