No emission limits for Eastern Europe

By 2020, the European Commission wants to sink greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent compared with 1990. Krzysztof Bień, assistant editor in chief of the business paper Gazeta Prawna, criticizes the plans. The Commission wants industry to stop polluting, he writes. "Energy should be obtained from biologically renewable sources, and people should stop destroying nature. But such an ideal world is much closer at hand for those who are already rich. In poor countries like Poland, trying to become perfect overnight can lead to bankruptcy. In its attempts to replace oil with biofuels, the European Commission contributed to making food prices unstable. ... The air in Europe may well become clean, but jobs will disappear as well."

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