Polish President Andrzej Duda said Thursday he is sending to parliament for approval a draft law that would abolish a top court’s disciplinary chamber in order to end a bitter dispute with the European Union.

“We don’t need this dispute,” Duda said, stressing that Poland is going through a difficult time at home and internationally, with mounting security tensions in the region.

Duda said the proposal is to “give Poland’s government a tool for ending the dispute with the European Commission,” the bloc’s executive arm, and unblocking massive EU pandemic recovery funds for Poland.

The right-wing government has repeatedly clashed with the EU, which says the changes it it has made to Poland’s justice system and the judiciary, putting them under political control, undermine the principles of democracy and the rule of law.

Duda proposed amending the law on the Supreme Court and closing the court’s controversial chamber, where most judges were appointed with the government’s backing. It would be replaced with a new, smaller, 11-member body tasked with professional vetting of judges, called the Professional Responsibility Chamber.