2026-04-19T10:42:39Z https://verfassungsblog.de/oai/repository/

oai:verfassungsblog.de/33544 2018-03-01T09:19:16Z posts

http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20180301-101850 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-rule-of-law-in-poland-a-sorry-spectacle/ The Rule of Law in Poland: A Sorry Spectacle Matczak, Marcin eng 2018-03-01 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Council of the Judiciary judicial independence Rule of Law Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 With political appointments to its National Council of the Judiciary, Poland is now seeing the next step in the dismantling the rule of law. The change in the procedure for appointments to the Council was one of the reasons thousands of Poles took to the streets last summer to protest in the name of independent courts. Their fears have turned out to be well founded.