Minister tells EU commissioner Poland has right to reform judicial system

Zbigniew Ziobro, Poland's minister of justice, said after his meeting with the EU Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynder, that while some EU members are allowed to make changes in their judiciary others are not. The meeting in Warsaw on Thursday came amid controversy surrounding changes to the Polish judicial system that the EU alleges are a threat to the independence of the judiciary in Poland. An accusation that the government has denied, while claiming that Brussels is employing double standards by failing to bring to task EU states that have also, allegedly, compromised the independence of their judges.