nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/5c21f796868991ad DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250324s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/5c21f796868991ad doi eng 342 23 Morijn, John Author aut Restoring Polish Judicial Independence - An Alternative to the Venice Commission’s Wrongheaded Opinions Morijn, John Verfassungsblog 2025-03-24 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Restoring the Polish rule of law without doing more damage to it is a vexing challenge. Building Back Better becomes even more complex when the current president – part of the autocratic Law and Justice (PiS) party, which lost the previous elections – refuses to sign off on any law. Yet few would have expected the Venice Commission (VC), of all institutions, to make things even more complicated. This contribution first tracks the state of play in Poland following the VC Opinions of October 2024 and December 2024. Given the central role of the VC’s thinking in Polish efforts to find a way out, it then goes on to critique the Opinions on legal and strategic grounds before proposing an alternative route.   CC BY-SA 4.0 Constitutional restoration Europarat. Europäische Kommission für Demokratie durch Recht PiS Rule of Law Venice Commission (DE-588)5157104-3 gnd Europarat. Europäische Kommission für Demokratie durch Recht Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/restoring-polish-judicial-independence/ raw object