Cash vs. Climate Change: EU budget debates are heating up in CEE

The EU plans to combat climate change, but global temperatures are not the only one heating up: As the diplomatic haggling of the EU’s next long-term budget is in full swing, representatives from the Polish Electricity sector are warning that the proposed budget reallocation to combat climate change will leave the “EU’s poorest countries stranded” without financial repercussion for job losses in the mining sector of up to 160,000 by 2030. Does the CEE energy sector have to dress for stormy weather?