There are regulatory defeats, and then there are decisions that make you wonder whether the regulator has spent years sawing through the branch it was sitting on. The two interim orders issued by the Administrative Court in Halle on 6 August 2026 belong uncomfortably close to the second category. The cases are not final judgments and nobody should pretend that they are. But the court has now done something the GGL should find much harder to dismiss than another angry operator press release: it has accepted, at least on a preliminary review,......
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