Polish President's Pledge to Sign Kremlin Commission Law Sparks Political Uproar

Poland's President Andrzej Duda has announced that he will sign into law a bill creating a commission to investigate Russian influence on Polish politics that could ban people from public office for a decade. The opposition warns the commission is aimed at harassing political rivals ahead of this fall's pivotal parliamentary election. The decision is likely to worsen already fraught relations between Warsaw and Brussels, with the European Commission freezing billions in EU pandemic recovery cash over worries the Polish government is backsliding on the bloc's democratic principles.