ΠΟΛΩΝΙΑ:Ηρθε «το τέλος της δημοκρατίας»;
Ten of thousands joined demonstrations in cities across Poland for the second week in a row, to protest against the new conservative government’s attempts to take control of the country’s Constitutional Court. Members of the opposition party Civic Platform hold up copies of Poland’s constitution to protest a move by the new right-wing government to put five of its supporters on the Constitutional Tribunal, in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. The appointments would replace recent appointments made by Civic Platform before it lost power. Critics of the government say Poland is in a constitutional crisis and the government is violating democratic norms. Leader of the ruling Law and Justice party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, bottom center, and Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, left, applaud after lawmakers voted a new law on the constitutional court, in the parliament in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015. Poland's parliament voted 235 to 181 in favor of a con