Poland threatens to leave EU as Brexit edges closer after Boris Johnson landslide - Daily Star
Poland may leave the EU in order to press ahead with judicial reforms, according to the country's Supreme Court.
Today politicians will discuss proposals that would allow judges to be dismissed if they questions the government's judicial reforms.
But the Supreme Court has told them they would need to leave the EU to press ahead with them, reports BBC.
It said in a statement: "Contradictions between Polish and EU law will in all likelihood lead to an intervention by EU institutions regarding an infringement of EU treaties, and in the longer run (will lead to) the need to leave the European Union."
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The warning comes just days after Britain all but secured Brexit after Boris Johnson's Conservative Party won a landslide majority over Jeremy Corbyn's Labour last week.
It gives Johnson a majority to press ahead with his Brexit deal after three years of deadlock in the House of Commons.
Judges claim the Polish proposals could serve as an attempt to gag its judicial system.
The nation has already been referred to the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
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The report adds that judges can be punished for engaging in "political activities" under the proposals.
The court's chief justice, Professor Malgorzata Gersdorf, compared the proposals to martial law in 1981 communist Poland.
She said: "I would therefore ask that the hatred of judges and courts stops being used as a weapon in the struggle for power, especially since repression, as in 1981, would be a sad expression of powerlessness rather than a manifestation of strength."