The judgement of the Constitutional Tribunal is simply a signal that Poland has the right to defend itself. Against harmful EU policies for the national and European economies as well as the de facto Green Deal.
The Constitutional Court's decision of 10 June is more than a dispute over the explanation of the treaties. This is an crucial minute in which Poland – as a sovereign state – has set the border on EU regulatory expansion. And she did the right thing.
From the point of view of the free marketplace supporter, Green Deal is not only an costly ecological project, but above all a centralist strategy of redistribution and control, which chokes competition and entrepreneurship. The standards and climate objectives imposed from Brussels have nothing to do with free marketplace logic and are a forced transformation that deliberately eliminates low-cost energy sources and hits national sectors of the economy, peculiarly in Central Europe.
Poland, which for decades has built its coal-based manufacture and inexpensive energy, is present to be forced to control to expensive, unstable sources, just due to the fact that the western lobby had already invested in windmills and photovoltaics. It is not equality – it is simply a climate colonization.
The Constitutional Tribunal had the courage to say that the European Union had exceeded its competences. And that the Polish Constitution stands higher than the current interpretations of the directive and the judgments of the TEU. This judgement is simply a defence of the rule of subsidiarity, sovereignty and national right to decide on its energy mix. due to the fact that only a national state can be liable for the energy safety of its citizens – not Brussels officials or lobbyist interest groups.
This does not mean that Poland rejects ecology or the thought of transformation. But we cannot accept a situation where we are forced to change our economy, rise energy prices and burden the poorest, just due to the fact that individual in Berlin or Brussels felt it was necessary. The Green Deal as it stands is an ideological, non-economic and highly unfair task to little prosperous countries.
If Poland is to stay an independent and competitive state, it must have the right to decide its own energy policy. This conviction is simply a step in the right direction. This is simply a step towards a Europe of sovereign nations, not 1 centralised federation in which the strongest decides.
If the Green Deal were to make sense, it should be based on voluntary, technological neutrality and real support, not on ideological coercion and threats of receiving funds. Attempts to impose 1 transition way for all countries are not advancement – it is simply a dictatorship. And they have nothing to do with the free market, either democracy or voluntaryism.
Arthur Szczepek
