In a ruling handed down on Thursday 22 January (case C-554/24 P), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) dismissed Poland’s appeal against the judgment of the General Court of the EU of May 2024 (see EUROPE B13419A22), which had rejected several Polish appeals against decisions of the European Commission offsetting, against Poland’s claims on the EU budget, the daily penalty payments totalling €68.5 million that Warsaw had to pay for its delay in putting an end to the...