(ANSA-AFP) - WARSAW, FEB 3 - Polish President Andrzej Duda on
Thursday announced a draft bill to scrap the "disciplinary
chamber" of the Supreme Court -- a newly created body at the
heart of a row with the European Union. Duda said he hoped the
change, which still needs to be approved by the Polish
parliament, would end the dispute with Brussels. "I propose that
this chamber be liquidated," he said. Under the draft, the
judges currently in the chamber would have the option of moving
to another Supreme Court chamber or retire. The chamber would be
replaced by a different body called the "Chamber of Professional
Responsibility" with 11 judges. "I want to give the Polish
government a path to ending the dispute with the European
Commission," Duda said. The disciplinary chamber was part of a
Polish judicial overhaul that the European Union perceived as
backsliding on democratic standards, by attacking judges'
independence. (ANSA-AFP).
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