Members of the European Parliament attend a plenary session of the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, March 1, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer
BRUSSELS/WARSAW (Reuters) - EU lawmakers on Thursday supported the European Commission's plans to take unprecedented punitive steps against Poland over reforms of its judiciary and state media that they say threaten the rule of law in the ex-communist country.
In a further sign of Warsaw's deepening international isolation, a new Holocaust law that has angered Israel and the United States, Poland's close NATO ally, came into force on Thursday. The law imposes jail sentences of up to three years for saying Poland was complicit in Nazi German crimes.
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