Poland to investigate alleged coal prices

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The Polish government will investigate “very meticulously” the possible existence of prices agreed between coal sellers in Poland to raise prices, assured the country’s prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki.

According to government sources reported today, the head of government will ask the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection “to investigate very meticulously and decisively if there is an agreement between coal sellers to raise prices” in a concerted manner.

Several members of the Executive have assured in recent days that there will be enough coal to meet the needs of citizens, but despite this, some industries warn that they have few reserves and say they cannot afford the cost of coal, whose price has tripled in a few weeks.

At the same time, the state-owned Polish Development Agency has just published a report showing profits for the coal industry of 1.1 billion euros, compared to 300 million losses during the same period last year.

In a radio interview, the head of the Polish Executive recalled his proposal to “lower the prices of the ETS – the European mechanism for the control of polluting emissions -, for example, from the 90 euros currently in force to 30 euros, which would bring immediate relief for all European citizens”.

In addition, in a statement made yesterday in Bransk (east), Morawiecki blamed Brussels in part for the current energy crisis, saying that “it is the result of the fatal mistakes of the EU and, of course, also of Russian aggression. But The wrong EU policy, which we have pointed out for years, started earlier,” he said.

The head of the Polish government also attacked Germany and said that Poland is today “a victim of this policy, of the policy of (Vladímir) Putin in collusion with the German government.”

“You have to remind him, because his climate policy is in ruins, it is a great defeat, a failure of the German government,” he said.

In addition, Morawiecki alluded to the dispute between Warsaw and Brussels over the Polish judicial reform and stated that the Poles are “fed up with this sermon from Germany, enough of the sermons on democracy, on what the rule of law is.”

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