European producers, processors and distributors of steel protested on 7 September before the European Commission in Brussels. Poles besides participated in the action, and organizers demanded equal conditions for home production. If the Union does not halt the industrial escape, Poland will pay for the failure of jobs, technology and safety of supply.
Industry has arrived at Berlaymont
The European Competition for manufacture brought together producers, service centres, distributors, traders and employees of the steel sector in Brussels. According to the organizer, 68 organizations, 15 trucks and more than 200 delegates confirmed the participation before the protest. The event was besides attended by representatives of the Polish industry.
EUROMETAL has planned a European Commission building press conference, silent march with 10 symbolic coffins and simultaneous horn signal. The coffins meant production capacity, workplaces and method cognition threatened by progressive deindustrialisation. Following the protest, the joint set of requests went to the Commission representative.
This was not an objection to economical cooperation with abroad countries. Entrepreneurs demanded fair rules. European production incurs energy, emissions and extended reporting costs while finished high-steel goods can enter the marketplace without comparable burdens. specified a law punishes those who inactive keep factories in Europe.
Steel safety ends besides soon.
EU protective instruments include steel at earlier stages of the chain. The gap appears on finished products: automotive parts, device components, springs, metallic furniture, household appliances and prefabricated designs. Production may be transferred outside the Union and then returned in the form of a commodity not equally charged by the CBAM system.
The manufacture wants to extend the carbon mechanics and trade defence tools to steel products. It besides demands a reliable determination of the origin of the natural material. Without this, European standards become an costly work for their own businesses and an empty declaration for imports. Polish cement plants feel a akin imbalancewhich pay for climate regulation by competing with production outside the community.
Public procurement must service production
EUROMETAL calls for greater application of the Made in Europe rule in strategical procurement. This concerns energy, infrastructure and defence. The direction is right unless Europeanism becomes a veil for the interests of respective major economies. Poland must search criteria that reward actual production, the participation of national suppliers and the maintenance of on-the-spot competences.
You can see that with large investments. The construction of the Polish atomic power plant can strengthen the national industryif the orders are not imported for finished items and simple installation. The same should be applied to railway, energy and arms contracts. Public money is to build production capacity in Poland.
Sovereignty begins at the factory
The steel dispute concerns State security. Without its own processing, it is impossible to rapidly increase the production of wagons, power equipment, bridges or military equipment. The supply chain controlled abroad operates smoothly until a political crisis, war or transport blockade. Then the economy from inexpensive imports turns to dependence.
The European Commission has multiplied its own manufacture for years, while leaving the door for goods manufactured according to another standards. Now he has to fix that mistake. The Polish government cannot wait passively for a solution from Brussels. inexpensive energy, reasonable taxes, home orders and tough defence of Polish plants are needed. Europe without factories will be neither green nor safe. She'll be dependent.
Source: EUROMETAL, Radio Maryja, PAP, Bankier.pl.
Source: Radio Maryja
