Poland

Poland’s justice Minister is in a personal Union attorney General

Poland’s national-conservative party in power with its absolute majority, a more controversial Reform through Parliament. The Ministry of justice and Prosecutor General’s office to be merged.

Debate in the Parliament in Warsaw (archive photo)

The Sejm agreed with the majority of the members of the party law and justice (PiS) for a law with which all prosecutors, including at the regional level, directly to the justice Ministry. The function of the attorney General does the attorney General himself. He has the right to make any determination to intervene. The Post falls to the Minister of justice Zbigniew Ziobro, a long-standing political associates of Poland’s strong man in the Background, Jaroslaw Kaczynski. In the parliamentary debate raised the Opposition of the government, the independence of the public Prosecutor’s office to destroy. The representatives of the prosecution threatened to political leaders.

New Power – Minister Of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro

For the law voted 236 deputies, 209 votierten against it, seven abstained. This was in 2009 by the preceding government Reform was introduced, the public Prosecutor’s office to an independent body had made, reversed. On Friday, the law in the Senate, the second chamber, may be advised.

Since its assumption of office in October, the PiS party of former Prime Minister Kaczynski, the work of the constitutional court more difficult, and the public media on a short leash. The interventions in the media and in the legal area had in the European Union and in Germany for sharp criticism taken care of. The EU Commission has, therefore, a Review of the rule of law.

Visiting from Berlin

Federal Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel travels this Friday a working visit to Poland. In the centre of the discussions according to data from Gabriel’s Ministry of economic and energy policy issues, as well as the strengthening of economic relations between the neighbouring countries. Poland is one of the most important German trading partners. The Polish economy is among the fastest growing in Europe.

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