Poland may be stripped of EU voting rights over judicial independence

Rightwing government’s planned reforms for legal system could prompt triggering of article 7 for the first timeThe EU is on the brink of taking the nuclear option of stripping Poland of its voting rights in Brussels in response to plans by its rightwing government to “abolish” the independence of the country’s judiciary.
Frans Timmermans, the first vice-president of the European commission, accused Warsaw of seeking to put judges under full political control as he warned