Friday 5 December @ 15:30-19:40 CET
On Friday, a conference examining the true costs of the EU's Green Deal will be held in Jastrzębie-Zdrój a city in the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland.
Silesia is a region that bears enormous costs related to the European Union’s climate policy.
The conference is taking place in the vicinity of Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa, Europe’s leading producer of coking coal, which is a strategic raw material for the EU, essential for the production of steel. Steel, which we need so much of today. In the current climate, this state-owned company is threatened with bankruptcy due to high climate costs.
Simultaneous EN-PL interpretation will be provided.
Watch the livestream here.
Full programme:
15:30 Opening of the conference
Patryk Jaki – Co-Chair of the ECR Group
16:00 Panel I: The origins of the Green Deal – ideology instead of rational climate policy?
Jadwiga Wiśniewska – Member of the European Parliament
Kazimierz Grajcarek – Chair of the Mining and Energy Secretariat of NSZZ “Solidarność”
Artur Bartoszewicz – Polish economist, lecturer and expert in public policy, Doctor of Economics
17:00 Panel II: What is the Green Deal really – regulations, mechanisms, consequences
Beata Szydło – Prime Minister of Poland in 2015–2017, Member of the European Parliament
Zbigniew Gidziński – NSZZ Solidarność expert on climate policy
Karol Wenus – Lawyer, Vice-President of the Board of the Responsible Energy Transition Association
Marek Ściążko – Associate Professor, PhD, Eng., from the Energy Centre at the AGH University of Science and Technology
18:00 Panel III: The real costs of the green deal – energy and automotive industries
Jacek Ozdoba – Former Minister and Secretary of State in the Ministry of Climate, Member of the European Parliament
Tomasz Herszeyk – Former President of the Management Board of the WEGLOKOKS Capital Group, Doctor of Economic Sciences
Janusz Michałek – Former President of Katowicka Specjalna Strefa Ekonomiczna S.A. (Katowice Special Economic Zone), expert in strategic consulting, Doctor of Social Sciences
Filip Grzegorczyk – Former Secretary of State at the Ministry of the Treasury, former President of the Management Board of Tauron Polska Energia, PhD in legal sciences
19:00 Panel IV: Śląsk 2035 – from a strong pillar of Europe to a region in deindustrialization?
Michał Woś – Former Minister of the Environment, former Member of the Board of the Silesia Province, Member of the Polish Parliament
Marek Wesoły – Former Secretary of State in the Ministry of State Assets, Member of the Polish Parliament
Grzegorz Matusiak – Member of the Polish Parliament
Marek Lachowicz – Economist, author and co-author of numerous economic analyses
19:40 Summary of the conference
