Press release on Poland

Please find hereinafter the press releases and statement on Poland:

– by the Spanish Association of Judges (Asociación Profesional de la Magistratura) , in Spanish

– by the Portuguese Association of Judges

–by  the International Association of Portuguese Speaking Judges, in Spanish

-by the German Judges Association:

24th July 2017
AFP and dpa report an interview with the President of the German Judges Association Jens Gnisa. It was picked up by nearly all media and the radio:

Online media, examples:
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/richterbund-polen-101.html

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/deutscher-richterbund-rechtliche-zusammenarbeit-mit-polen-in-gefahr-15119302.html

Radio (example Deutschlandfunk):
http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/polen-richterbund-sieht-rechtliche-zusammenarbeit-in-gefahr.2932.de.html?drn:news_id=772064

21st July/22nd July 2017
Dpa reports another interview with the President of the German Judges Association Jens Gnisa on Friday evening and Saturday. It was picked up by the radio DLF and in more than 50 daily newspapers
http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/justizreform-in-polen-deutscher-richterbund-sieht.1939.de.html?drn:news_id=771262

19^th July 2017
Reuters reports an interview with a member of the committee Europe/International of the German Judges Association:
https://de.reuters.com/article/eu-polen-deutschland-idDEKBN1A426H

–by Australia:
–  President of the Judicial Conference of Australia
– Australia ‘ Polish Newspaper
– Judicial Conference of Australia

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