The Polish government has for the moment backed down in a standoff with the European Commission over a planned highway route through an EU nature protected area.
Polish prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski told Polish Radio that construction work, scheduled to start Wednesday (1 August) on a 17km elevated highway section across the Rospuda River Valley, has been postponed until the European Court of Justice (ECJ) rules on the issue.
"The work in the Rospuda valley will not start," Mr...
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