The European Commission called on the Polish President to approve the appointment of eight judges, after consultation with representatives of the centrist majority and the nationalist opposition, to resolve the political and institutional crisis in the country.
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31/10/2026
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A European Commission today called on the Polish President to approve the appointment of eight judges, after consultation with representatives of the centrist majority and the nationalist opposition, to find a solution to the political and institutional crisis in the country.
“ It is up to the Polish authorities to ensure that the Constitutional Court can function in accordance with the Polish Constitution and in compliance with the relevant case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union”, a spokesman for the European Commission has been told to France-Presse (AFP).
He added that “the appointment of eight new members of the Constitutional Court falls under the constitutional competence of the Sejm” (the lower chamber of Parliament), at a time when Polish President Karol Nawrocki refused to ratify it.
The political crisis between Donald Tusk's centrist executive and the opposition, which has fermented since his return to power in 2023, assumed a dramatic character on Friday with police intervention at the Constitutional Court in Warsaw.
Considered by the European Union to be too dependent on political power, this court was at the centre of an impasse between Brussels and the nationalists of the PiS (Right and Justice) during their mandates (2015-2023).
Already in 2015, the Government of PiS had appointed judges to this court with political commitments, which neither the EU nor Donald Tusk (center-right) recognize.
The European Commission also recalled that the Court of Justice of the European Union ordered, last May, provisional measures requiring the Polish authorities to “abstain the taking up and carrying out of the judicial duties of the judges appointed by Sejm in March 2026”.