Top EU court fines Poland 1m euros a day over judicial reform

The fine comes as Poland fails to comply with the EU court order to suspend the disciplinary chamber of its Supreme Court. The European Union has fined Poland $1.2m a day for not suspending a disciplinary chamber for judges, deepening a row over judicial independence an the primacy of EU law. “In the ruling issued today, the Vice-President of the Tribunal obliged Poland to pay…a penalty payment of EUR 1 million per day, counting from the date on which this ruling was delivered to Poland,” read the statement from the Court of Justice of the European Union. #ECJ Vice-President orders #Poland to pay a daily fine of €1m for not suspending national legislation relating, in particular, to the jurisdiction of the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court #RuleOfLaw 👉https://t.co/ATb3CgbPxg — EU Court of Justice October 27, 2021 It came after a weeklong war of words in which Poland told the EU to stay out of its judicial affairs while other EU nations insisted that Warsaw could not continue to get huge EU subsidies while disregarding the bloc’s democratic principles at will. Deputy Justice Minister Sebastian Kaleta also criticised the court’s decision “The CJEU completely disregards and ignores the Polish constitution and the judgments of the Constitutional Tribunal,” he wrote on Twitter.