The Vice-President of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued an order on Friday 21 May requiring Warsaw to immediately cease lignite mining activities at the Polish Turów mine near the Czech and German borders.
This order follows a request from the Czech Republic. On 26 February 2021, the country brought an action for failure to fulfil obligations before the CJEU on the grounds that Poland had violated EU law by allowing lignite extraction at the Turów mine until 2026...