The Court of Justice of the European Union has punished Warsaw to hand over that amount to the European Commission to apply the provisional measures required to paralyze the disciplinary chamber of its Supreme Court, considered illegal.
The Court of Justice of the European Union has imposed this Wednesday a fine of one million euros per day to Poland for failing to comply with a previous European ruling that obliges it to suspend the disciplinary regime that it imposes on its judges. The EU considers a threat to judicial independence in Poland.
Last July, Luxembourg ordered Warsaw to close the disciplinary chamber of the Polish Supreme Court on the grounds that violates the independence of judges. That is why the Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, appealed to the Constitutional Court and challenged Brussels, questioning the laws of the European Union.
Because the discipline chamber is still open, the Commission requested fines for Poland and today the response of the Court of Justice of the European Union has arrived. The Polish Government, for its part, described as “blackmail” the Court’s decision.
At the Summit of the 27 last week it became clear that Germany, France and other member states do not want a face-to-face confrontation with Poland and prefer to leave the case in the hands of justice.
The Luxembourg Court will now have to decide what to do with the appeal filed by Poland and Hungary to the mechanism relating the funds to the rule of law.
Kingston is an accomplished author and journalist, known for his in-depth and engaging writing on sports. He currently works as a writer at 247 News Agency, where he has established himself as a respected voice in the sports industry.
