La Polonia sotto accusa : brevi note sulle circostanze che hanno indotto l’Unione Europea ad avviare la c.d. opzione nucleare

On 20 December 2017, the Commission of the European Union proposed the Council to adopt a decision on Poland under Article 7(1) of the Treaty on European Union. According to the Commission, this initiative was triggered by the judicial reforms delivered in Poland over the past two years. The reforms are accused of having put the country's judiciary under the political control of the ruling majority, thus representing a clear risk of a serious breach of the rule of law. The paper provides an account of the main legal changes introduced by the reforms, trying to highlight the principal legal concerns raised by them and the future possible scenarios