The EU has launched a legal probe into a Polish law that could block allegedly pro-Russian politicians from public office, in a swift rebuke of a move that critics say could be used by the country’s ruling party to target political opponents ahead of this autumn’s election.
Public outrage at the proposed anti-Russia commission helped fuel what the opposition called the largest anti-government protest in Poland since the fall of communism last Sunday, and has galvanised the country’s pro-EU opposition as it seeks to topple the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS).
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