Angela Merkel has urged the EU not to get bogged down in rule of law disputes at the European court as she and other leaders sought to ease tensions with Poland over judicial independence.
The German chancellor said member states needed to find ways to “come together again”, as she arrived in Brussels on Thursday for an EU summit where leaders plan to discuss how the bloc should respond to Polish threats to judicial independence and to the primacy of EU law.
EU member states are at odds over how they should confront a ruling by Poland’s constitutional court that key parts of EU law are not compatible with the Polish constitution — a verdict considered a direct challenge to the union’s legal order.