EU Court Puts Hungary’s Russia-Led Nuclear Project in Limbo (1)

The European Union’s top court annulled a decision by the bloc’s executive that approved Hungary’s state aid for the Russian-led expansion of its sole nuclear plant.

The European Commission “should have ascertained whether the direct award of the contract for the construction of two new reactors to a Russian undertaking complies with EU public procurement rules,” the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg said on Thursday. Austria had appealed an earlier EU court decision that had approved the deal.

The ruling throws the decade-old project, which has suffered years of delays, into limbo. Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ...