Poland fined €1m a day over controversial judicial system changes
by Daniel Boffey in Brussels from on (#5R73X)
Warsaw calls European court of justice move blackmail and says penalties not the right road'
Poland has been fined 1m (845,000) a day by the European court of justice for ignoring a ruling that it must suspend its controversial judicial system changes.
The inflammatory move, which runs contrary to recent words of caution from the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, was immediately denounced in Warsaw as blackmail".
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