The next dispute over judicial issues is looming between the EU and Poland.
The head of the European Public Prosecutor's Office, Laura Codruta Kövesi, told the Polish newspaper "Rzeczpospolita" that Poland is refusing to answer inquiries from her institution.
Poland is one of the five EU members that have not joined the European Public Prosecutor's Office, which has only been in operation for a year.
However, it is obliged to support them in cross-border investigations.
"We made 23 requests for cooperation, all of which were rejected," Kövesi told Rzeczpospolita.
You have therefore turned to the EU Commission.
The result could be a lawsuit against Poland at the European Court of Justice.
Reinhard Veser
Editor in Politics.
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The task of the European Public Prosecutor's Office is to investigate criminal offenses in which EU funds have been misappropriated or embezzled.
The question of cooperation with Kövesi's authority can therefore be of importance for the triggering of the so-called rule of law conditionality;
This mechanism, decided by the heads of state and government in 2020, allows the EU Commission to cut the payment of funds to a member state if there is sufficient evidence that a possible misuse of the money is not being prosecuted by an independent judiciary.
The Commission has already announced such proceedings against Hungary.
In the case of Poland, the EU has so far seen no indications of the misuse of EU funds.
However, due to the dispute over the politicization of the Polish judiciary, she has so far withheld the funds from the Corona reconstruction fund to which Poland is entitled - a total of around 36 billion euros.
An agreement was only reached in this dispute last week, when the Polish parliament decided to dissolve the so-called Disciplinary Chamber.
On Wednesday, the commission wanted to confirm the Polish reconstruction plan, and this Thursday Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is supposed to travel to Warsaw.