The penalty for Turów is more than the WO¦P collected over 30 years. Poland has to pay over EUR 50 million

“Eight months of penalties imposed by the CJEU is more than it has collected in the 30 years since its inception,” Maciej Sokołowski wrote on Twitter, TVN24 journalist.

• 1 month of fines = EUR 45 million
• EUR 45 million = PLN 204 million
• 8 months x 204 million = PLN 1.63 billion
• The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity collected PLN 1.5 billion from the beginning – the journalist calculated.

The Turów mine. Poland has to pay over EUR 50 million

started preparing to withhold payments to Poland for refusing to pay a fine of EUR 500,000 per day for the mine. Currently, the penalty for Poland amounts to over EUR 50 million – he informs. The EC has already sent three requests for payment to Poland and

ruled on a financial penalty for Poland in September, after the Turów lignite mine in Bogatynia, which belongs to Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE), was not closed, as requested by the Czechs. The expansion of coal mining in Turów “negatively affects not only the rights of the inhabitants of the Czech-Polish border to water, because the extraction affects the level of groundwater, but also the quality of the natural environment and the property of the inhabitants.”

The Polish government did not come to an agreement with the Czech government for many months. they were digging Turów, did not conclude any agreement, and the Turów mine is still operating.

Arkadiusz Mularczyk on Poland’s relations with the European Union

Deputy Arkadiusz Mularczyk stated in Program 1 of Polish Radio that some groups of the European Union act to the detriment of the Polish economy. This is how he referred to the question about financial penalties imposed on Poland by the European Commission.

MP Mularczyk said that in relations with “realism is needed, not euro-enthusiasm”. As he added, the decision to close the Turów mine during the energy crisis must be assessed very critically. He said that it shows that some groups in the Union act against the economic interests of our country.