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EU-POLAND: Leaked: Timmermans letter to Warsaw

13 January 2016

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"For days, EU officials had been signaling they would only issue a strongly-worded démarche to Warsaw for its new laws that critics argue undermine democratic norms. But on Wednesday, the European Commission took the unexpected step of moving forward with a formal “rule-of-law procedure” to determine whether the two new laws – one dismissing the management of state TV and radio broadcasters, the other limiting the powers of the constitutional court – pose a “systemic threat” to European norms."

See: Leaked: Timmermans letter to Warsaw (FT Brussels Blog, link)

And: Letter to Poland (pdf)

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