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Two days after his arrest on suspicion of corruption, Poland’s former deputy justice minister Marcin Romanowski was free again on Wednesday. Romanowski himself announced on Wednesday morning at a press conference that the Warsaw District Court had made this decision during the night. The reason is that he enjoys immunity as a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, he said. The court initially did not publish any justification for the decision. The incident is a serious setback for Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s centre-left government. It had taken office with the promise …

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