Ireland violated EU law by taking a case about the UK's Sellafield nuclear power plant to the United Nations instead of to the EU courts, the bloc's highest court has ruled.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) said on Tuesday (30 May) that the EU should resolve such disputes between member states.
Ireland launched in 2001 a UN action over the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria, England. Dublin complained that the plant, which recycles plutonium from spent nuclear fuel, broke the ...
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