nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210531-124133-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210530s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210531-124133-0 doi eng 342 23 Basheska, Elena Author aut Good European Neighbours The Turów Case, Interim Measures in Inter-State Cases, and the Rule of Law Basheska, Elena Verfassungsblog 2021-05-30 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 21 May 2021 the Vice-President of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), Ms Rosario Silva de Lapuerta granted interim measures in the case of Czech Republic v Poland, ordering Poland to immediately cease lignite extraction activities in the Turów mine.  An action against a Member State which might have breached an EU directive – in this case by extending a lignite mining permit without carrying out an environmental impact assessment – may seem like an ordinary environmental case falling under the remit of EU law. The Czech Republic v Poland case, however, is anything but ordinary for at least two reasons. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 Art. 259 TFEU ECJ Principle of good neighbourliness Rule of Law Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/good-european-neighbours/ raw object