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Newshour: Poland Faces EU Backlash Over Judicial Reforms

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Poland Faces EU Backlash Over Judicial Reforms

04/07/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Newshour, Poland Faces EU Backlash Over Judicial Reforms

The Polish government has caused disquiet among EU officials over its new retirement law

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Poland's prime minister has defended judicial reforms in his country, which require judges to retire when they turn sixty-five. He claimed that communist-era judges still sit in the country's Supreme Court.

The EU has accused Poland trying to control the judiciary and subvert democratic standards, with 40% of Supreme Court judges expected to be forced out.

Also on the programme: British authorities investigate another poisoning in the Wiltshire area, and we take a look at the new female mayor of Tunis.

(Photo: Protests against Polish judicial reforms, Credit: EPA)

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