Poland backs down on Holocaust law, seeks to remove jail terms
Poland's Prime Minister said on Wednesday he wanted to amend a law the imposed jail terms for suggesting the nation was complicit in the Holocaust, backing down on legislation that had angered Israel and the United States.
He asked the lower house of parliament to remove the jail terms from the bill - an unexpected announcement that came as Poland's government and its judicial reforms face heightened scrutiny from the European Union. Lawmakers started a debate on the changes on Wednesday morning.
"We resign from the criminal provisions," the head of prime minister's office, Michal Dworczyk, told public radio, saying those parts of the bill would divert attention from the original point of the legislation.
