Poland's parliament has approved a heavily criticized law that gives the government greater power over people's money. Bank accounts can be frozen without a court order. The opposition warns that the law could be used to silence critics of the government.
Poland's EU-Loyal Prime Minister Donald Tusk got it approved Bill No. 3003 in the lower house of the Polish parliament, the Sejm, on Friday, November 6. The government side won the vote by a margin of 240 to 202. Now another political battle looms over the state’s control of citizens’ money and property.
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