European Network of Councils of the Judiciary (ENCJ), which represents Europe’s judiciaries, put forward a proposal to suspend its Polish member, the Polish Council for the Judiciary (KRS), on the basis it lacks independence from the government. ENCJ announced it plans to vote on the proposal mid-September. “The Board considers that the KRS is no longer the guardian of the independence of the judiciary in Poland. It seems instead to be an instrument of the executive,” they wrote in a detailed opinion.