Polish top court rejects government plan to overhaul public media

Police stand outside the Polish public television TVP building as protesters and Law and Justice politicians gather after Poland's new government took a public news channel off the air and dismissed executives from state media to restore "impartiality," the culture ministry said, in Warsaw, Poland, December 20, 2023. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/ File Photo

WARSAW (Reuters) - A top Polish court rejected as illegal on Thursday plans to liquidate the country's state radio, television and news agency which the new pro-EU coalition government said had become propaganda outlets for the previous right-wing administration.

The Constitutional Tribunal's ruling underlines the challenges Prime Minister Donald Tusk's coalition faces in rolling back reforms introduced by the previous Law and Justice (PiS) cabinet.