Waszczykowski writes letter to Venice Commission

Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski has written a letter to Thorbjoern Jagland, the head of the Council of Europe, in which he complains about a leaked draft opinion on the Constitutional Tribunal reform. "I regret to say that the actions of the Venice Commission... have been unscrupulously used for political purposes,” Waszczykowski wrote. He added: “My astonishment is all the greater because the President of the Venice Commission did not undertake an immediate response in the form of a statement condemning the leak and its use for political purposes.” The draft opinion of the Council of Europe's Venice Commission on the reform of the Constitutional Tribunal that was leaked to the media, states that changes to Poland's constitutional court endanger the rule of law, democracy and human rights.