nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230118-001918-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230117s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230118-001918-0 doi eng 342 23 Pech, Laurent Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-1608-1285 7 Years Later: Poland as a Legal Black Hole Pech, Laurent Verfassungsblog 2023-01-17 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The EU is faced with a Member State where all of its top courts are now unlawfully composed; where every single judicial appointment procedure since 2018 is inherently defective due to the involvement of an unconstitutional body; and where core EU and ECHR requirements relating to effective judicial protection and the fundamental right to an independent court established by law have been held “unconstitutional” in 2021 and 2022 by the body masquerading as Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal. CC BY-SA 4.0 European Commission Poland Polish Constitutional Tribunal Rule of Law Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/7-years-later-poland-as-a-legal-black-hole/ raw object