The Court of Justice of the European Union upheld on Thursday a lower tribunal's ruling which had said that Russia's access to the OPAL gas pipeline should be limited. The court case is a win for Poland against an appeal of the lower court's ruling filed by Germany. The OPAL pipeline, operated by OPAL Gastransport, is a 470-kilometer (292 miles) long pipeline, which links the operational Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline of Russian gas giant Gazprom to Germany. The European Commission (EC) granted in 2016 an exemption to the OPAL operator from EU energy…
