Timmermans: nuclear option against Poland

EU Commissioner Frans Timmermans wants to use the toughest procedure against Poland.

This article can ultimately lead to Poland being temporarily deprived of its voting rights in the EU. Presumably it will not come this far: this measure requires unanimity, and Hungary has already announced its decision.

Never before has an EU country been threatened with this so-called 'nuclear option'. The decision of the European Commission comes after two years of unsuccessful attempts to enter into a dialogue with Poland about legislative changes that, according to Brussels, threaten the democratic constitutional state.

Poland, for example, is trying with a patchwork of measures to seize power within the Constitutional Court. Moreover, it recently decided that, in short, the political judges will appoint, while a large number of leading judges will be retired.