It's rare for the European Court to have a hissy fit but in this case it has, albeit in gentlemanly, almost courtly, language.
It's even more rare for its target to be EU institutions. In a judgment that might best be described as "get your stuff together before you make law," the Court displays rare ire at poorly drawn law, law that is passed without thinking through the consequences and, particularly strongly, law that assumes that PR statements in the preamble will be read into the operational parts.
And yet, despite what many commentators are saying, the Court did not...