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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk

Hearing on Polish judges could deepen standoff with Europe

FILE PHOTO: A police officer stands outside Poland's Constitutional Tribunal building in Warsaw, Poland September 22, 2021. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/File Photo

A top Polish court was to discuss on Wednesday whether a continent-wide human rights court had the power to question local judges' legitimacy in a case that could deepen the nationalist government's standoff with Europe.

In power since 2015, the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party has clashed with European institutions over issues from judicial reforms and refugees to climate change and LGBT rights.

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