Polish president scraps court reform bid as EU issues warning

Poland's president on Monday scrapped his bid to give himself more power over the judiciary, as the EU warned that Warsaw still risked unprecedented sanctions over what it calls a threat to the rule of law.Andrzej Duda made a sudden U-turn just hours after proposing to change the Polish constitution, when lawmakers told him he would not have parliamentary backing for the move.Duda had on Monday morning presented his own version of laws in place of government reform proposals he vetoed in July, t