http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20191211-180829-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/open-letter-to-the-president-of-the-european-commission/ Open Letter to the President of the European Commission Pech, Laurent Scheppele, Kim Lane Sadurski, Wojciech eng 2019-12-11 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 CJEU judicial independence Rule of Law Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Ever since the European Commission initiated a third infringement procedure in respect to the recurrent attacks on the rule of law by Polish authorities last April, the situation has continued to seriously deteriorate. It is now upon the Commission to promptly submit to the European Court of Justice an application for interim measures in the infringement case C-791/19 Commission v Poland now pending before the Court of Justice.