WARSAW (Reuters) – Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), played down a European Union investigation into recent legislation, saying Poland has to go its own way and not yield to any pressures.
The EU began an unprecedented inquiry on Wednesday into whether Poland’s new conservative, Eurosceptic government has breached the EU’s democratic standards by taking more control of the judiciary and public media.
Kaczynski, who holds no formal government post, but is widely believed to be in overall charge of the EU’s largest eastern member state, said “there is no sense in being concerned about this”.
