Hints and tips:
...ties between Warsaw and the European Commission....
...But parliamentary, fiscal and judicial hurdles appear set to delay the scheme until May at the earliest....
...Lawmakers from the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party are currently preparing a workaround to get the crucial judicial reforms through the constitutional court....
...But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability....
...power to discipline judges, overhauling of the disciplinary regime, and reinstating dismissed judges....
...Reynders also stressed in the letter, seen by the Financial Times, that the milestones in Poland’s recovery plan addressed only some of the concerns surrounding judicial independence, and that “more remains...
...fiscal discipline....
...is still calling loudly and persistently for the commission to act....
...on disability benefit....
...In late 2019, a business associate tipped off Zhang to an imminent investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Chinese Communist party’s deeply feared corruption watchdog....
...The penalties, which come as the ECJ is also set to consider a request from the commission to fine Poland for its refusal to comply with separate rulings relating to its controversial judicial overhaul,...
...The investigation into Chu came just weeks after the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Communist party’s top graft watchdog, levelled a series of corruption allegations involving Pan Jiahua...
...Now the European Commission threatens to ask the ECJ to impose fines on Poland, if the government fails to explain by August 16 how it plans to comply with the court’s rulings on judicial independence....
...This is not just a battle between Brussels and Warsaw, but a judicial civil war inside Poland which an increasingly autocratic government is bent on winning, never mind the constitutional niceties....
...For the right, he promised law and order and fiscal discipline — and no new taxes....
...“The law is about human beings and businesses. So, yes, I think being a good person makes you better at the other [disciplines].”...
...In a landmark ruling last November, the ECJ ruled that a special chamber set up by Poland to “discipline” its judges was contrary to the principle of judicial independence....
...The Charter sets out two fiscal rules which will keep this government on the path of discipline and responsibility....
...One of the most contentious changes was the establishment of a chamber with the power to discipline judges for their conduct and the content of their rulings, alarming judges and democracy activists....
...This month, the supreme court ruled that, as a result of changes made by Law and Justice, the body that appoints judges — the KRS — was no longer independent, and a new chamber set up to discipline judges...
...But writing state aid disciplines into the agreement and pushing for “dynamic alignment”, or the UK’s rules automatically updating to match the EU’s, goes beyond pampered poultry....
...They took a 10 per cent commission and paid bribes to politicians to keep the contract. Eventually they were brought to account, but Sicilian tax revenues collapsed after the state resumed control....
...education and disability benefits....
...Mr Kovács insisted the proposed judicial system changes were consistent with both EU rules and practices in some other countries in the bloc....
...reviewed only by the European Commission....
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