Poland's changes to top court raise concerns - EC spokesman

Poland's changes to the constitutional court law raise new concerns and may trigger a formal reaction by the European Commission, Margaritis Schinas, a spokesman for the European Commission said on Monday. "We know that the law on the functioning of the constitutional tribunal, voted on Friday last week, does not address a number of important concerns expressed (..) by the European Commission and raises some new ones," a Commission spokesman told a news conference in Brussels. "The college of commissioners will revert to the matter shortly and consider, in the light of all developments, the appropriateness of further action under the rule of law framework," the spokesman added. The European Commission holds its last meeting before the summer break on July 27.