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This R&D provides resources on the current state of European Union (EU)-Polish relations.  Poland’s new Justice Minister recently compared German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government to the Nazis in response to German European Union Commissioner Gunther Oettinger’s remarks that Poland could be sanctioned for passing a new law that gives the government control over public broadcasters.  Polish laws that critics say are interfering with the impartiality of its judiciary have also come under fire and the European Commission will meet later this week to decide whether Poland should lose its EU voting rights.