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COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / Environment

EU Court of Justice orders Poland to stop lignite extraction at Turów mine

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...

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EUROPEAN COUNCIL
CLIMATE: discussions between EU27 could prove complicated
HEALTH: SARS-CoV-2 variants, health certificates and vaccine deliveries via Covax on European Council agenda
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: European Council to return to subject of relations with Moscow in June
UNITED KINGDOM: EU-27 to review relations with London amid “worrying developments” over Northern Ireland protocol
EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19
HEALTH: Rome Summit commits to principles to guide global response to future pandemics
HOME AFFAIRS: EU Member States approve agreement with European Parliament on ‘EU Digital Covid Certificates’
HOME AFFAIRS: inclusion of UK on list of third countries whose residents can travel to EU is not yet guaranteed
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
ECONOMY: recovery underway, but pandemic “will leave scars”, says Eurogroup
TAXATION: Germany and France welcome US proposals on minimum corporate taxation
STATE AID: launch of public consultation over revision of risk finance guidelines
SECTORAL POLICIES
REGIONS interview: Without regions, cohesion funds and European recovery plan risk failure, warns Apostolos Tzitzikostas
AGRICULTURE: EU institutions hope to reach an agreement on CAP reform on 26 or 27 May
AGRICULTURE: CAP reform, organic farming, seeds, new genomic techniques on menu of EU Council of 26-27 May
ANIMAL HEALTH: MEPs back calls to phase out caged farming
HOME AFFAIRS: Commission sets up a European information exchange system on refusals of requests to carry weapons
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY
JUSTICE: UK personal data protection regime adequacy, European Parliament calls on Commission to reconsider
AGRICULTURE: European Commission rejects European Parliament request for support measures related to frost damage
COHESION: European Parliament wants to use Recovery Plan and Cohesion Policy to revitalise Europe’s demography
HAITI: European Parliament calls for rapid organisation of free and fair general elections
CHAD: European Parliament calls for rapid return to constitutional order
EXTERNAL ACTION
NEAR EAST: EU welcomes ceasefire announcement
CHINA: EU must abandon “confrontational attitude”, says Beijing
JAPAN: Europe and Japan to review bilateral relations on Thursday 27 May
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
ENVIRONMENT: EU Court of Justice orders Poland to stop lignite extraction at Turów mine
MIGRATION: Court of Justice of the European Union clarifies notion of subsequent asylum application
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS - SOCIETAL ISSUES
WOMEN: About 60 MEPs call on Maltese government to decriminalise abortion
NEWS BRIEFS
OACPS: Hungary refuses to approve post-Cotonou agreement
MIGRATION: national ambassadors give EU green light for political agreement on ‘Blue Card’ Directive
CALENDAR
Main activities of the European institutions: until 28 May 2021
CALENDAR EXTRA
Other events: until 28 may 2021