Are Europhiles Right to Criticize Polish Judicial Reform as Undemocratic?
Some MEPs, European officials, and pro-European protesters are execrating the most recent Polish judicial reform initiative. The proposed bill, among other things, gives Polish MPs the power to appoint 15 out of 25 judges to the National Judicial Council (KRS) without consulting legal experts or judicial circles and without any popular consent whatsoever, but how is it possible that a 24-year-old international entity having severe democratic deficits and institutions whose members are entirely appointed lambasts one of the world's oldest democracies for presumably being undemocratic?