ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Maria Ejchart-Dubois

Maria Ejchart-Dubois is a lawyer and human rights expert associated with the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. She is a Member of the Ombudsman’s Social Council, co-chairperson of the Committee of Experts of the National Torture Prevention Mechanism, and Co-founder of the Free Courts Civic Initiative and the Justice Defence Committee (KOS)

POSTS BY Maria Ejchart-Dubois

17 September 2021

Maria Ejchart-Dubois, Sylwia Gregorczyk Abram, Michał Wawrykiewicz, Paulina Kieszkowska-Knapik

The Jokes Have Ended

In recent weeks, the European Commission (‘EC’) has clearly shown that it has lost its patience with unruly Poland. The Polish government is obviously playing for time, deceiving and cheating Brussels about the implementation of the decisions of the European courts, only to obtain the European Commission’s acceptance of the Reconstruction Plan but also to prevent a motion being filed with the CJEU to impose financial sanctions for failing to implement the measures. Continue reading >>