Morawiecki: Poland does not need pressure from EU to fight smog problem

Poland does not need pressure from the EU to fight its smog problem and limit its CO2 emissions, Deputy Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said commenting in response to the implication from the European Commission that Brussels will use the smog issue in climate talks with Warsaw. "We need no pressure, we need no stimulation to act," Morawiecki said at a press conference in Brussels on Wednesday evening. He responded to what Maroš Šefčovič, Vice-President of the European Commission, said earlier about using the recently notorious smog problem in Polish cities to convince Poland to change its energy policy and impose restrictions on the transport industry. Morawiecki stressed that Poland takes the smog problem seriously and plans to spend hundreds of millions of złoty on investments aimed at improving air quality.