Poland’s President Andrzej Duda may have enjoyed a warm welcome at the White House — offering to name a military base after Trump certainly couldn’t have hurt.

But back home he’s facing a decidedly chilly response from the European Union. The EU is considering to take away Poland’s voting rights.

"I don't have much good news for you," Frans Timmermans, a deputy head of the EU's executive European Commission, said Tuesday, after the commission's second hearing on the state of law in Poland. "Between the first and the second hearing, the Commission's concerns have increased. The situation in Poland has not improved."

The source of the stand-off: Duda's controversial decision last year to lower the retirement age for judges from 70 to 65, a move the EU believes is designed to push aside unhelpful critics of his ruling Law and Justice Party.

The European Commission accuses his government — which took power in 2015 — of undermining the fundamental values of the EU, arguing that aspects of its broad-ranging reform agenda might be incompatible with EU Law.

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