(MENAFN) The top court of the European Union has ruled that Poland must instantly suspend a law that obligated some Supreme Court judges to retire, highligjting a dispute between Warsaw and Brussels.
The country's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party had already approved to discard the law that lowered the judges' retirement age after the European Court of Justice issued an interim judgment against the legislation in October.
The Eurosceptic and nationalist PiS initially pushed through a range of new powers after coming to power in 2015 that rights groups and EU officials said endangered the rule of law and increased the government's control over Polish courts.
PiS originally argued the changes were required to improve the efficiency of the courts and rid the country of a residue of communism.
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