Large trade union protest in Warsaw against EU climate policies

ER Editor: Yesterday, the famous Polish union Solidarity led a huge protest against the EU Green Deal. Some tweets below, plus an article from Remix News.

🚨🇵🇱 Warsaw Poland Today

Tens of Thousands turn out to protest against the Polish Government, their Globalism & crippling Green Policies.

The more people realise, the worse conditions get, the more this will happen. pic.twitter.com/mmvnumQSbq

— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) May 10, 2024

🚨🇵🇱 Huge Protests across Poland against their Globalist Government.

This follows Ireland on Monday.

People won’t accept these criminals & destruction of their country. pic.twitter.com/ZwgUue53ur

— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) May 10, 2024

Political trouble is brewing for our old pal Donald Tusk as massive protests take place in Warsaw today against the EU’s Green Deal.

Appropriately, proceedings are being led by Solidarity – the same organisation which fought against Communism in Poland during the 1980s. pic.twitter.com/PqUkhtQVhq

— Bruges Group 🇬🇧 (@BrugesGroup) May 10, 2024

Polish #farmers protest on the main streets of Warsaw against the #GreenDeal. With EU parliament elections on the horizon, the debate on climate change regulations is heating up. #EU #greendeal #polishfarmers #Poland #Warsaw pic.twitter.com/UMqYqmdJQS

— Kazimierz Łysiak (@kazimierzlysiak) May 10, 2024

THE PITCHFORK PROTESTS IN POLAND PERSIST.

Thousands of Poles gathered in Warsaw today to protest against grain dumping by Ukraine and the EU’s FARM-TO-FORK POLICIES that are designed to destroy Europe’s agriculture.pic.twitter.com/KR6HRgK8Qv

— Steve Hanke (@steve_hanke) May 10, 2024

Notes from Poland also reports on this large protest, but we urge caution with this supposedly independent site —

Large trade union protest in Warsaw against EU climate policies

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ER: This article, published the day before the protests of yesterday, Friday May 10, gives us useful context. 

Poles launching EU-wide petition and taking to the streets against EU Green Deal

Efforts are growing in Poland to halt the EU’s Green Deal, including a protest action on May 10 and a new petition designed to support farmers and families, writes Olivier Bault of the Ordo Iuris Institute

OLIVIER BAULT for REMIX NEWS

May 9, 2024

On Friday, May 10, Poles will be taking to the street in a protest organized by the legendary Solidarity trade union. Solidarity, which was the main dissident social movement against communism in Eastern Europe in the 1980s, is now demanding a referendum on the EU Green Deal. Its current leader, Piotr Duda, has even called the EU Green Deal a new “red plague,” in reference to communism.

The protest is supported by Law and Justice (PiS), the main opposition party in Poland, and also by the other parties of its United Right coalition, as well as by the Confederation, an alliance of Christian nationalists and libertarians to the right of the United Right.

The trade union, however, makes “the whole political class” in Poland responsible for the EU’s climate policy and notes that it warned from the outset of the threats linked to that policy, which means it makes the United Right leaders responsible too, as the EU Green Deal was adopted during their eight years in power.

“The solutions implemented under the Green Deal in the future will translate into, among other things, increases in electricity and heating bills, new taxes on energy and fuel, a ban on heating with fossil fuels, as well as increases in food prices and the country’s food insecurity. NSZZ Solidarity has decided to loudly express its opposition to such policies,” Solidarity’s leaders wrote in a press release published in mid-March.

They also wrote:

“The Solidarity trade union, which won Poland’s freedom in the past and later used it many times for just causes, has again decided to reach for the highest form of direct democracy, which is a nationwide referendum in which citizens will be asked about the continuation of the implementation of the Green Deal. The referendum will be preceded by an information campaign. This will allow for a broad awareness-building public debate on the real effects of the EU’s climate policy so that every citizen of Poland will be able to express his or her opinion on the subject based on reliable knowledge. After all, EU policy should not be determined by officials in Brussels, but based on the consent of the citizens of member states.”

The May 10 protest will start at noon on the Plac Zamkowy Square in central Warsaw, when farmers are expected to turn up en masse as they did on March 6, when a large farmer protest was brutally repressed by Donald Tusk’s left-liberal government.

However, it is not only farmers who are going to be very negatively affected by the EU Green Deal. As the Ordo Iuris legal think tank stresses in an EU-wide petition against the Green Deal it has just launched, not only is European agriculture facing a catastrophe, but car drivers and homeowners will have to pay a high price for plans dictated not by reason and based not on consultations, but driven by ideology.

We can still “Stop the Green Deal” in its current form, we remind people in our petition, as it is a matter of the political decisions made by the heads of state and government in the European Council that can be later translated into new EU law processed through the EU Council (where ministers of the EU-27 meet) and the European Parliament.

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