Zbigniew Ziobro will apply for Poland to be withdrawn from the EU climate package. “We cannot reconcile”

During Thursday’s press conference, he announced a motion to withdraw Poland from the EU package, which he called “irrational”. Earlier, he informed about the referral to the Constitutional Tribunal of a declaration of non-compliance with the Constitution of the EU rule of law mechanism. It links access to EU funds with the rule of law in a given country.

Ziobro with an application for the climate package. “We can’t agree”

– As the leader of Solidarna Polska, I intend to apply to the party’s statutory authorities after Christmas to pass a resolution on Poland’s withdrawal from this irrational, insane program – the climate and energy package – announced Ziobro, quoted by PAP.

He explained that “we are in favor of looking for rational solutions to protect the climate”, but “we cannot agree to such solutions that will lead to such a dramatic price tag, changes in the economic area”.

The Sejm adopted a resolution to suspend trading in allowances

On December 9, adopted a resolution calling on European Union countries to suspend the EU CO2 emissions trading system (EU ETS) or exclude Poland from this system until its reform.

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According to the resolution, the ETS trading system “has become a huge threat to Poland”. However, the governments of the Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska) were blamed for creating this threat, because in 2014 the PO accepted the climate goals at the European Council summit. In 2014, it was agreed on a 40% target to reduce CO2 emissions by 2030, and in 2020 the prime minister agreed to tighten the EU’s reduction target to 55%, counting in exchange for additional money for Poland for the energy transformation – he wrote Jacek Gądek at Gazeta.pl

According to the resolution, the increase in emission costs will translate into “drastic increases in electricity and heat prices of several dozen percent” in 2022. – This is a direct hit to the economic security of millions of Polish families and Polish enterprises, which are threatened by the specter of poverty, it was underlined.