Biodiversity campaigners in Europe can claim victory. If Poland continues illegally felling trees in the primeval Bialowieza forest, a Natura 2000 network natural area protected by EU law since 2007 and listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, it could be hit with a daily penalty payment to the Commission of at least €100,000 following an order handed out by the European Court of Justice on Monday evening 20 November (case C-441/17 R).
The Court ordered Poland to comply immediately with...