Commissioner for Human Rights

Article by Adam Bodnar for POLITICO.COM

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Here in Poland, we are headed into a period of darkness when it comes to legal guarantees, the role of the constitution and the sanctity of EU treaties. Hope is slowly vanishing. We can only hope that — being deprived of institutional guarantees of independence — individual judges will be strong enough to safeguard their own independence in their judicial decision-making.

European politicians must look beyond the next month or year. Everything possible must be done in order to save the independence of Poland’s Supreme Court.

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