A group of experts to analyse the opinion of the Venice Commission

European human rights watchdog, the Venice Commission, has said laws by Poland’s new government endanger democracy, and demanded Warsaw end a standoff with its highest court by accepting a ruling that the government broke the law. On March 14, Polish government has announced about assigning a group of experts to analyse the opinion of the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission on the rule of law in Poland. Moreover, Prime Minister Beata Szydło claimed to refer the opinion of the Venice Commission to the Constitutional Tribunal (Polish parliament). However, Ryszard Terlecki, the head of the PiS parliamentary caucus, confirmed that the official document has not yet reached the lower house. According to him, after receiving it they will give the opinion to the Parliamentary Research Bureau, “to be convinced of the accuracy of the transfer and the authenticity of the document."