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Article snippet: (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: • In Poland, the government-controlled upper house of Parliament could vote as soon as today on a bill that would give the populist government the power to replace Supreme Court judges. Yesterday, the bill passed the lower house of Parliament. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Warsaw and other cities to protest the bill, which they and the European Union say is a threat to the independence of the judiciary. _____ • Doubts are growing that Britain’s governing Conservatives will formulate a coherent strategy for negotiating the country’s departure from the European Union. The confusion in London is being met with increasing consternation in Brussels. “There are about as many views about the direction of Brexit as there are members of the cabinet,” said one observer. Separately, recorded crimes in Britain increased the most in a decade. Felonies committed with guns were up 23 percent. _____ • Germany’s relations with Turkey took another turn for the worse over the persecution of human rights activists, including a German citizen, who had been arrested at a digital security workshop this month. Berlin told its citizens to exercise caution when traveling to Turkey and threatened to scale back economic cooperation. Germany is home to Turkey’s largest diaspora and Turkey’s top export destination. Turkey’s foreign minister said Germany’s rhetoric was not... Link to the full article to read more