20
May
2026
Watch
Reviewing the ETS system to support European competitiveness (topical debate)
Mr President, thank you very much. Ladies and Gentlemen, To answer the question of whether to throw the ETS in the trash or to abolish it, what is the current assessment of citizens, it is enough to look at the streets of Warsaw at the moment when these deliberations are taking place. At the moment, hundreds of thousands of Poles are protesting against climate policy on the streets of Warsaw. Your slogans about ETS are beautiful, and in the meantime, look at the various financial instruments. Yesterday in the hall you awarded Angela Merkel. It is a pity that the German delegation does not recall where the ECJ came from. Energiewende – get rid of coal, take gas and gas is to be supplied via Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2. That was your strategy. And today in Lithuania, where our friends from Lithuania live, drones are flying in, which may have been directly financed by Nord Stream 1 and 2, at least by this idea. So think about why this ETS was actually blocking the development of industry and the European economy.