EU ministers question Poland over rule of law concerns


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  • Tuesday, 18 Sep 2018

Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks during his announcement at Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland August 16, 2018.REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Poland's right-wing government sought to explain itself to its European Union peers on Tuesday for the second time in three months on Tuesday amid concern over changes to the judiciary that the EU believes undermine it's courts' independence.

Polish Minister for European Affairs Konrad Szymanski said on entering the hearing before EU ministers in Brussels that he would defend changes to the judiciary brought by the eurosceptic PiS government. He is facing a tough task.

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