The deputy speaker of the Polish parliament has said there is no need to panic after the European Court of Justice (CJEU) imposed EUR 1 million daily fine on Poland for not suspending the Disciplinary Chamber of the country's Supreme Court.
Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission (EC) president, has said that Poland must restore the independence of its justice system, scrap a disciplinary regime for judges and reinstate suspended judges.
Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal has ruled that several articles of the EU Treaties do not comply with the Polish Constitution, calling into question the primacy of European Union law over national legislation.
The vice president of the CJEU, on Wednesday, dismissed Poland’s request to repeal the court’s decision on the country’s Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court.
The president has said that, in his opinion, Poland has not been violating the rule of law, and that this is the case with European institutions which have been attacking the democratically-elected Polish government.
Eight judges from Poland's Supreme Court walked out of a meeting of the court's board on Thursday to protest against the continued operation of a Disciplinary Chamber in violation of a ruling the EU’s top court.
The Hungarian government has said it will back Poland in its dispute with the EU following the European Commission's decision to ask the EU's top court to fine Poland for its failure to comply with a court ruling demanding the suspension of a disciplinary chamber for judges at the Polish Supreme Court.
Zbigniew Ziobro, the Polish justice minister, said on Tuesday that the European Commission's motion for penalties against Poland over its judicial disciplinary system should be regarded "in the categories of certain aggression."
The European Commission has asked the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to fine Poland for failing to comply with the court's July 15 ruling calling for the suspension a disciplinary chamber for judges at the Polish Supreme Court.
The European Commission has confirmed it has received a letter from Poland about the country's Disciplinary Chamber for judges, which has been at the centre of a dispute between Warsaw and Brussels.
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