President Obama chided Poland’s new right-wing leaders on Friday over moves that have effectively hobbled the country’s top constitutional court, the chief check on the government’s power, and urged them to do more to nurture democratic values and institutions.
The unusual public rebuke of a close American ally came after a private meeting between Mr. Obama and Andrzej Duda, Poland’s president, on the opening day of the NATO summit meeting in Warsaw. [...]
Poland had already come under fire over the issue. Last month, the European Commission ruled that Poland had violated the European Union’s standards regarding the rule of law, a move that might eventually result in sanctions. [...]
Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council and a former Polish prime minister under the center-right Civic Platform party, compared Poland’s rightward drift to similar movements around the world that have “different values and different strategic aims” from the liberal democracies that have dominated the West in recent decades.
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