I fought very hard and was effective. While we were in power, the Green Deal package was not implemented, said Mateusz Morawiecki.
The Green Deal is an EU program that aims to achieve so-called climate neutrality by 2050. The costs of its implementation are enormous. In total, Poland needs to invest around 7% by 2030 to achieve its climate goals. its GDP. Okay. 2.5-3 percent GDP is the costs associated with the Green Deal and Fit for 55. The EU’s climate policy will cost us around PLN 60 billion annually.
The Green Deal means higher energy costs, the need for thermal modernization of buildings and the abandonment of combustion cars. It also blocks the competitiveness of European economies. Farmers protest against ecological solutions from the EU. Both the Confederation and PiS accuse Donald Tusk’s government of not trying to block solutions that are unfavorable to Poles. The government responds that it was former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki who agreed to the current form of the Green Deal.
Morawiecki denies the allegations regarding the Green Deal
In an interview on the Dla Pieniędzy channel on YT, Mateusz Morawiecki explained that during his rule he did not agree to regulations that are harmful to Poland. – Not only is my signature on the Green Deal nowhere to be found, but in 2019 at the European Council I assured the exclusion of Poland as a country that cannot commit to climate neutrality, which was on the agenda at the time. In 2020, the climate targets were also only adopted for the EU, not for Poland. This is stated in the transcripts, the former prime minister argued.
– Between 2019 and 2023, i.e. at the end of our government, the European Commission put pressure on regulations and directives anyway. They were impossible to block because qualified majority voting was used. To block this you need a group of several larger countries. We were lonely, said the vice president of PIS. He stressed that his government protested against the most harmful solutions for Poland and filed a complaint with the Court of Justice of the EU. – Wherever I could, I fought very hard and was effective. While we were in power, the Green Deal package was not implemented, he noted.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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