Commission backs away from suing Dutch Presidency

In order to avoid a head-to-head confrontation with the Dutch Presidency, the European Commission has decided to postpone a decision on a court case against the Netherlands over European election results.

The Commission had in May threatened the Netherlands, which currently holds the EU presidency, with a court case if immediately published results of its European Parliament elections on 10 June- three days before the last votes in the EU were cast on the 13th at 22.00.

But the D...