Just Transition Fund.

On Wednesday, EP and Council reached a provisional agreement on setting up the Just Transition Fund to mitigate the social impact of greening the economy. According to Jerzy Buzek, ITRE repporteur on Just Transition Fund, Poland is to get one fifth of the budget or about 4 bn euro.

The way EU states will spend money from the Recovery Package, including the subsudues energy transition, will be not only under the scrutiny of the European Commission, but also the Council of the European Union. Other countries will decide what we will be spending the money on. We are surprised Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki agreed […]

Poland will receive about EUR 125 billion from the recovery fund and the EU’s new seven-year budget. The Just Transition Fund, which is the basic tool used for alleviating the social impact of the energy transition, will be worth EUR 10 billion. This is EUR 20 bn less than previously planned. The missing billions mean […]

What goes on in Poland on the 21st of July.

What goes on in Poland on the 7th of July.

Even though Poland has not yet agreed to support the EU climate neutrality goal, the legislation whose goal is to reach the target is already binding for us. This means we are standing in some kind of a nightmarish “draught”, which never ends well – warns professor Jerzy Buzek, Poland’s former prime minister and a […]

The current proposal for a Just Transition Fund fails to provide sufficient support to Member States faced with the biggest challenge in the transformation towards carbon neutrality. This is the main finding of Eurelectric latest paper on the topic.

What goes on in Poland on the 15th of January.