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schema:articleBody	Poland on Thursday argued that the European Commission had "no grounds" to challenge a new law disciplining judges, despite concerns that it undermines judicial independence. The European Commission said Wednesday that its latest "infringement procedure" against Poland was "designed to safeguard the independence of judges in Poland" against "political control". Dubbed a "muzzle law" by critics, legislation adopted by Warsaw in February is designed to discipline judges who question the legality of the government's other judicial reforms. The EU, European courts and top legal bodies argue that many of those changes are out of step with the rule of law, especially the separation of powers that is a basic tenet of democracy. "There are absolutely no grounds for the initiation of the rule of law procedure," Poland's justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, said in Warsaw. "The European Commission has no power to interfere in internal affairs that shape the judicial system in individual states," said Ziobro, who has supervised a string of controversial reforms over the last five years. The move is the latest round in a long-running tussle between the European Commission -- the bloc's executive -- and right-wing governments in Eastern Europe it accuses of undermining fundamental EU values. This is the fourth case lodged by the Commission against Warsaw since the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) government there began seeking new oversight over judges' work and careers. The controversial Polish law allows the disciplining of judges "whose public activities are incompatible with the principles of the independence of the courts and the independence of judges." Judges from nearly all EU members joined hundreds of their Polish colleagues in Warsaw in January for an unprecedented street protest against the law they said would effectively gag critical magistrates. According to the Commission, the law "increases the number of cases in which the content of judicial decisions can be qualified as a disciplinary offence. "As a result, the disciplinary regime can be used as a system of political control of the content of judicial decisions." Under pressure from the Commission, the PiS has softened or rolled back some of its other controversial reforms. sw/mas/cdw
schema:headline	Poland says 'no grounds' for latest EU legal challenge
schema:mentions	European Court of Justice Gun barrel Zbigniew Ziobro European Commission European Union law Right-wing politics Warsaw Democracy Poland Law and Justice Minute and second of arc Law of Poland Under Pressure Eastern Bloc Judicial independence CDW The Move
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