The leader of Law and Justice party (PiS) Jarosław Kaczyński | Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images | Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images ’80 percent’ chance EU spat will end soon, says Poland’s Kaczyński European Commission has criticized controversial judicial reforms.

There's an "80 percent" chance that Poland will soon end its rule of law dispute with the European Commission, according to the leader of Poland's ruling PiS party Jarosław Kaczyński.

"We're currently planning to implement changes that we had earlier agreed on with the European Commission," Kaczyński said in an interview published Wednesday in the right-wing news magazine Gazeta Polska.

The process "will not be easy," but is "necessary to bring the situation back to normal," he added.

The right-wing Polish government has come under enormous pressure from the European Commission and many EU countries for its controversial changes to the legal system, which critics say has put judges under the control of the ruling party. The Commission in December took the unprecedented step of invoking Article 7 against Poland, a procedure that could see the country lose its voting rights as an EU member for violating the bloc’s democratic principles, if the measure is supported by all other EU countries.

The Polish government's response to Brussels’ concerns was rejected by Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans, who said last month that it was “not the answer to the Commission’s recommendations.”

The PiS party later presented amendments to the Polish parliament to the laws criticized by Brussels. The proposed changes include equalizing the retirement age of male and female judges and reducing the role of Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro in the process of removing court presidents and vice presidents.

In the interview Wednesday, Kaczyński also addressed Poland's controversial so-called Holocaust law, which criminalizes statements made anywhere in the world that ascribe guilt for wartime Nazi atrocities to the Polish state or nation. The law was condemned by Israel and the United States as an attempt to stifle discussions of darker chapters of Poland’s wartime past, when some Poles helped Germans kill Jews.

"The goal was to put an end to unjust accusations and ascribing a nationwide participation in German crimes to Poland," Kaczyński said. "As a state, as a nation, we had nothing to do with them. On the contrary, the Polish underground state and the Polish government-in-exile, despite having very limited capabilities, were doing everything they could to protect Jewish citizens [in occupied Poland].

"It wasn't our intention to punish anyone for memories ... Nobody will face charges for memories, historical research or describing crimes committed by individual Polish citizens," he added, in reference to criticism that the law could silence testimony by Holocaust survivors.

President Andrzej Duda referred the law to the country's Constitutional Tribunal to examine whether it complies with the constitution.