On Tuesday, the EU Council passed a directive to eliminate CO2 emissions from new motor vehicles by 2035. After that date, the sale and registration of such vehicles will be prohibited.

Poland voted against the law. Italy, Bulgaria and Romania abstained. Poland has called the law unrealistic.

According to Minister Moskwa it seems beneficial mainly to the German market. “This has nothing to do with just transformation,” she wrote.

Hungary and Poland have voted against the European Commission’s new “dangerous” proposal to extend the previous regulation by another 15 percent cut in the use of natural gas.

If the use of natural gas by industry has to be artificially reduced, it means that there is a risk of a downturn in the economy.

In addition, Brussels is once again stealthily taking powers away from member states, as energy use, the national energy mix and the structure of the economy are explicitly national competences, and by imposing a reduction in gas use, they are effectively infringing on this sovereign right of member states.