EU's Timmermans says rule of law row with Poland not resolved

European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans addresses the European Parliement during a debate on recent developments in Poland and their impact on fundamental rights as laid down in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, in Strasbourg, France, September 13, 2016. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler

STRASBOURG (Reuters) - The deputy head of the European Commission said a dispute with Warsaw over Poland's top court has not been resolved, while European lawmakers lambasted the EU's biggest ex-Communist state on Tuesday for undercutting democratic checks and balances.

Earlier this summer, the European Union executive gave Poland's nationalist-minded government until late October to reverse changes to the country's Constitutional Tribunal, which Brussels says go against democratic principles.