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CoE Official Criticizes Polish Judicial Reforms
July 01, 2019
The Council of Europe’s (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović has published a report warning the Polish government that it must not pursue reforms of its judicial system focused on increasing “accountability or efficiency” at the expense of judicial independence.
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ECJ Adviser: Polish Court’s Disciplinary Chamber Lacks Independence
June 28, 2019
Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) Advocate General Evgeni Tanchev has advised the ECJ to hold that the Disciplinary Chamber of the Polish Supreme Court does not satisfy EU standards on judicial independence because the body that appoints judges to the Disciplinary Chamber lacks independence from Polish lawmakers.
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CoE Readmittance of Russia Splits Rights Activists
June 27, 2019
Deutsche Welle reports on the debate among human rights activists over the merits of the decision to restore Russian voting rights at the Council of Europe (CoE), with supporters hailing the move as a way to continue holding Russia accountable for rights violations and critics pointing to the CoE’s lack of influence over the Kremlin.
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Observers Fault CoE Body for Concession to Russia
June 26, 2019
Aaron Rhodes and Willy Fautré write that the decision of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (CoE) to readmit Russia in spite of the failure of the Russian government to withdraw from Ukrainian territory sacrifices human rights “on the altar of a geopolitical agenda.”
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ECJ Strikes down Polish Judicial Retirement Law
June 25, 2019
The Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) has ordered the Polish government to roll back legislation lowering the retirement age of Supreme Court Justices, finding that the change “undermines the principle of the irremovability of judges” and is contrary to EU law.
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