US Senators Urge New Polish Government to 'Recommit' to Democracy

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators, identifying themselves as friends of Poland, have written to Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo to register concern over recent Polish legislation seen as threatening the independence of state media and the country's highest court. The letter, signed February 10 by senators John McCain, Benjamin Cardin and Richard Durbin, cites two recent laws, one of which curbs the ability of Poland's Constitutional Court to strike down laws found to be...

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