Poland will no longer seek to sue the EU in an attempt to overturn many of Brussels’ climate policies, and is preparing to abandon legal proceedings already launched by the previous government in Warsaw, multiple sources told Reuters on Friday. appropriate Agerpres.

After several years in which the authorities in Warsaw, led by the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, opposed certain European climate policies, elections in October 2023 brought to power a new government led by former European Council President Donald Trump. Tusk.

Sources cited by Reuters said the pro-European government led by Donald Tusk intends to formally withdraw challenges to certain EU climate policies brought to the Court of Justice of the European Union.

The previous government in Warsaw launched several actions at the CJEU, including four cases last year, trying to overturn EU climate policies: the law banning the sale of new cars with CO2 emissions from 2035, the EU’s policy of setting national emission reduction targets, the modification of the EU market pollution certificates and targets to protect forests so that they store more CO2.

Sources said the Tusk government intends to drop the court cases and is negotiating a solution between the various ministries involved.

The new government in Warsaw has already announced its intention to change part of the national environmental policy to replace coal with renewables more quickly, but stressed that any changes would include support for affected workers and industries.