A law stating that the outgoing human rights commissioner may perform his duties until a replacement is chosen is inconsistent with the Constitution, Poland's top court ruled on Thursday.
The introduction of justice of peace courts in Poland may require an amendment to the country's constitution, President Andrzej Duda has said.
Adherence to rule of law in Poland remains a matter of concern, European Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders said on Tuesday.
The majority of Poles are in favour of more liberal abortion laws, according to a new poll published today.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets across Poland on Wednesday night after Poland's top court presented a written rationale behind its 2020 judgment banning terminations of pregnancies with foetal defects.
The president of Poland's Constitutional Tribunal has defended its controversial abortion ruling, which has resulted in weeks of street protests, arguing that it was based on law, not politics.
Poland's national medical trade union said on Tuesday that the act recently passed by the lower house of the Polish parliament facilitating the employment of doctors from outside the EU was "extremely harmful."
Credits and loans granted for ecological projects will enjoy repayment guarantees and sureties from a special fund set up under the amended act on supporting thermal modernisation, signed by President Andrzej Duda on Friday.
In the latest of a series of demonstrations against a Constitutional Tribunal (TK) ruling on abortion, protesters gathered on Plac Defilad in downtown Warsaw on Friday evening where they were surrounded by police who threatened forcible dispersal of the crowd.
The vast majority of Poles are against changes to to-date legislation seeking to ban terminations due to foetal abnormalities, one of the few legal grounds left for abortion in the country, a recent survey shows.
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