On Thursday 8 December, the European Commission announced that Italy is being referred back for a second time to the Court of Justice of the EU for its failure to ensure that urban waste water is adequately collected and treated and it could subsequently face huge fines.
In 80 agglomerations across the country out of the 109 covered by the first Court judgment of 19 July 2012 (C-565-10), Italy has still failed to adequately collect and treat the urban waste water discharged and has...