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Poland’s new centre-left coalition is taking steps to to insulate judicial appointments from politics – a much-debated subject that got the country’s former right-wing nationalist leaders into hot water with European Union officials. Justice Minister Adam Bodnar announced on Friday that the pro-EU government, which took office last month, would introduce legislation that rolls back a previous reform by the Law and Justice (Pis) party. The legislation focusses on the National Council of the Judiciary, which plays a major role in Poland’s legal system because it is the body that chooses judges t…

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