“I don’t understand why a conservative party isn’t fighting for the formalization of relationships and the security of families. Leaving people in legal limbo seems cruel,” says Minister Katarzyna Kotula in an interview with OKO.press. She responds to the arguments of coalition partners from PSL, who oppose the introduction of the civil partnerships bill.

In a letter to Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Ombudsman Marcin Wiącek clarifies that there is no basis for assuming that individuals appointed to judicial positions since 2018 are not legitimate judges and that the rulings they have issued are non-existent.

On October 17, the migration strategy was officially published on the government’s website. On Tuesday, the government discussed the strategy, and during the deliberations, a sentence was added to the document regarding parliamentary oversight of asylum-related legislation.

Justice Minister and Attorney General Adam Bodnar, in less than a year, has accomplished nearly everything that could be done without new legislation. However, he remains unwilling to use state force against PiS appointees, and the coming year is set to bring even greater challenges.

“Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar stated, ‘The Venice Commission supports the direction of the reforms in the Polish judiciary and views them favorably. At the same time, it has provided its comments and suggestions.'”

During Ernest Bejda’s tenure as head of the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA), the use of the Pegasus surveillance system was initiated. The commission remains confident that they will eventually succeed in questioning Bejda.

This was a long-anticipated decision by President Duda. As expected, the president intends to block the proposed reforms to the Constitutional Tribunal, which had been politicized by the Law and Justice Party (PiS).

Magdalena Niemiec from Katowice may become the first judge in Poland to file a precedent-setting lawsuit against the current government. She demands a swift resolution to the illegal neo-National Council of the Judiciary (neo-KRS) issue and the restitution of judges’ salaries, which were reduced for two years by the Law and Justice (PiS) government.

Not only Poland, but several other EU countries also fail to fully implement rulings from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). This issue extends beyond judicial independence.

Prosecutor General Adam Bodnar has today submitted a request to the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to lift Marcin Romanowski’s immunity.