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German chancellor Angela Merkel said during a visit to Poland in February that she hoped the neighbouring country would 鈥�cooperate in terms of climate protection鈥�, Ulrich Kr枚kel writes in Rheinische Post. But neither Poland鈥檚 current national-conservative PiS government nor its more liberal predecessor under Donald Tusk, the current president of the European Council, 鈥渨ere going to break with the tradition of protecting and subsidising the domestic coal industry鈥�, Kr枚kel writes. Autonomous supply security is sacred for a country that has been occupied by foreign powers so many times in the past, he explains. Poland is therefore wary both of projects like the German-Russian Nord Stream gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea and of new wind parks 鈥� 鈥渁rguably because most manufacturers come from abroad, from Scandinavia, Austria or Germany鈥�, he writes. The author says Polish climate protection advocates could put their hopes on only one problematic asset: smog, which is becoming a growing public health issue in 鈥渢he China of Europe鈥�.

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