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: PRAGUE The Czech Republic will take Poland to the European Court of Justice for illegal mining activities in the Túrow coal mine, Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček (S&D) has confirmed. According to the European Environmental Bureau, it will be the first legal case in EU history where one member state sues another for environmental reasons. EURACTIV’s Aneta Zachová reports from Prague. /// EU PRESIDENCY EU Commission warns of disorderly recovery from 2020 crisis. Not all EU countries will recover from the economic losses of 2020 at the same pace, the European Commission said on Mond...

: BUDAPEST Hungary’s top EU court nominee chosen unilaterally without formal selection, sources say. Neither a public application nor any other formal selection procedure preceded the nomination of Zoltán Csehi as the country’s new member of the European Court of Justice by Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga. According to Telex sources, Csehi had been a lawyer in the law firm of Varga’s predecessor until 2016 and had little experience in European law prior to being appointed to the European General Court that same year. Read more. /// EU PRESIDENCY Commission wants to ‘explor...

  “We included clear and strict mechanisms in terms of both monitoring and review, suspension or withdrawal of such decisions, to address any problematic development of the UK system after the adequacy would be granted.” – Věra Jourová , Vice-President for Values and Transparency, speaking about the Commission’s draft adequacy decision for EU-UK data transfers on Friday.     Top Story: The European Commission has issued draft adequacy approval on transfers of personal data between the EU and the UK, noting however that it will ‘monitor’ progress and reserve the right to resc...

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Croatia and Slovakia looking into getting the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, Lithuania's parliament calling for the persecution of Uighurs in China to be investigated, and so much more.

NORDICS HELSINKI Fifth-generation mobile networks from China may pose a certain number of possible risks, the director of the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service, Antti Peltarri, warned in an interview with the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation (YLE), adding that countries like Russia and China are attempting to get hold of Finland’s critical infrastructure. Read more. /// BERLIN Germans start showing liking for CDU/CSU and Greens coalition. A few months before the German elections, voters seem to start seeing the advantages of a Christian Democrat and Green coalition. Read more. Plans...