This week, Prime Minister Donald Tusk intends to present to the European Commission and the leaders of member states the content of proposals for changes to the European Green Deal strategy.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk stayed on Monday, March 4 this year. in Vilnius, where he met the Prime Minister of Lithuania Ingrida Šimonytė.
At a joint press conference, Prime Minister Tusk announced that today, i.e. on Monday, March 4 this year. will ask Marshal Szymon Hołownia to propose a resolution of the Polish Sejm calling on the European Commission to impose full sanctions on Russian and Belarusian agricultural and food products.
But he also announced that this week he will publicly announce the content of proposed changes to the European Green Deal strategy to the European Commission and the leaders of the member states.
– We exchanged comments with the Prime Minister (of Lithuania – editor’s note) and we will present a common position, and I hope that there will be many more member states in Brussels ready to talk hard about the Green Deal – said Donald Tusk.
And he added:
– Together with the Prime Minister, we have views that make us act to protect the climate. We present political forces for which climate protection, environmental protection and citizens’ health are the highest priorities. But we also find points in specific provisions of the Green Deal that are not entirely adequate to the real problems facing the EU. Simply put, environmental protection cannot and does not have to be in conflict with fundamental interests when it comes to food production and European agriculture. We need to find a common space here. This cannot be a civil war between ecology and agriculture.
Europe does not have to be condemned to such an absurd internal war. The war of interests. Our task – said Prime Minister Tusk, looking at Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė – We will certainly find a solution to correct some of the provisions of the Green Deal so that they do not directly affect the interests and sense of security of large groups of the population, because it is not only about agricultural producers, although they are primarily exposed to some, perhaps unforeseen by politicians. , the consequences of the Green Deal and I will also be putting forward a specific initiative in the coming days to revise some of the provisions of the Green Deal. A revision that will aim to protect the Polish and European agricultural market and the market of food producers.
We live in conditions of war and the issues of security and food and agricultural independence in Europe are absolutely as important as military security. And that is why I hope that the countries of this region will speak with one voice on this issue.
When asked whether her country supports Poland’s demand to renegotiate the Green Deal, the Prime Minister of Lithuania replied that:
– Farmers’ protests in the context of the provisions of the Green Deal took place in several European countries, including Lithuania. Our country has some reservations about the proposed provisions, especially in the area of reducing CO2, which were relatively small emissions, and the ambitious EU goals assume their further reduction. This is a very big challenge for us. On the other hand, we have society’s requirements regarding clean air, water and habitats. It is not easy to reach a compromise here. We have comments for the EC regarding exceptions and several suggestions so that agriculture has more time to adapt and so that this does not mean problems.
That means he supports it. Seems to. Well, the Prime Minister’s office hasn’t had much luck with translators lately…
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