EU summit: agreement on climate neutrality until 2050, excluding Poland

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EU leaders reached an agreement at the Brussels summit on the achievement of climate neutrality by the Member States by 2050. Poland was not able to declare its will to implement this goal.

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced that the summit conclusions included the principle that Poland would be reaching climate neutrality at its own pace.

I completely accept that Poland needs a closer look at our proposal of the Just Transformation Fund – said the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen after the talks.

Poland is a country that has to catch up with the rest, it needs more time to go through the details, but this will not change the Commission’s schedule.

The Commission is expected to present details of what the financial architecture of transformation support will look like in January. In June, the leaders are to meet again at the EU summit to take up the topic of neutrality again.

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