{"id":130198,"date":"2024-05-07T07:40:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T04:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/eu-to-end-sanctions-procedure-against-poland\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T07:40:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T04:40:02","slug":"eu-to-end-sanctions-procedure-against-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/eu-to-end-sanctions-procedure-against-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"EU to end sanctions procedure against Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130198\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nThe European Commission has said it will end an EU sanctions procedure against Poland after a promise from Donald Tusk\u2019s new government to restore the independence of the judiciary. In an announcement on Monday, the EU executive said it no longer saw \u201ca clear risk of a serious breach of the rule of law in Poland\u201d and planned to withdraw the article 7 sanctions procedure that could in theory have led to Warsaw being stripped of EU voting rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday marks a new chapter for Poland,\u201d the commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, said in a statement that congratulated Tusk and his government \u201con this important breakthrough\u201d. She added: \u201cThe ongoing restoration of the rule of law in Poland is great for the Polish people and for our union as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tusk, a former Polish prime minister and European Council president, won an election in October and took office with a promise to \u201cfix everything together\u201d. His government in February published an action plan aimed at restoring the independence of the judiciary and ending numerous conflicts with the commission and the European court of justice. Under the plan, judge members of Poland\u2019s national council of the judiciary will be elected by their peers in a secret ballot to end the influence of politicians, measures will be taken to enshrine the independence of the supreme court, and Polish judges will no longer face disciplinary action for following EU law.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the commission said \u201cthe first concrete steps\u201d taken by Poland to implement that plan and an acknowledgment about deficiencies in the rule of law were all relevant to its verdict that the rule of law was no longer threatened. Poland\u2019s decision to join the European public prosecutor\u2019s office, an EU body to investigate cross-border fraud, also weighed in its favour. \u201cGreat news from Brussels today! Thank you President @vonderleyen for the cooperation and support,\u201d Poland\u2019s justice minister, Adam Bodnar, wrote on X. \u201cWe are determined and devoted to our common European values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The EU\u2019s 26 other member states will have the chance to make \u201cobservations\u201d before the commission formally withdraws the sanctions procedure against Poland. The article 7 process against Poland was launched in 2017 after the hard-right nationalist government of the Law and Justice party began overhauling the court system to increase its control over the judiciary. Known as the nuclear option, article 7 could lead to an EU member state losing its right to vote in the EU council. The Polish case, however, drifted for years because it was feared that Hungary\u2019s hard-right nationalist government would veto any action against its erstwhile ideological ally.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/06\/eu-end-sanctions-procedure-against-poland\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/eu-to-end-sanctions-procedure-against-poland\/\">EU to end sanctions procedure against Poland<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,1043,274,1002,963],"class_list":["post-130198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-end","tag-eu","tag-poland","tag-sanctions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}