Both the Polish President  and Prime Minister and will attend the EU summit on Thursday and Friday in Brussels. Climate and energy, financial crisis and the stalled Lisbon Treaty are the main points on the agenda.
 
One of the most widely commented issues of the summit in Brussels is the climate and energy package, which aims to reduce the CO2 emissions by 20% by the year 2020. France is trying to get EU leaders to reach an agreement. Poland is among the countries which opposed the document, saying it would be a major burden for the citizens of their countries, it would ruin European industries, strengthening the economy of non-EU countries, such as the US or China, which do not obey the EU regulations. Meanwhile, experts have voiced opinions that it's highly doubtful whether man-made CO2 emissions are such a threat to the environment, questioning the whole idea of the regulations. Despite all the controversy, the political process has brought the issue so far that all Poland and other countries can do is try to fight for some kind of compromise, such as delaying the onset of new regulations.

Another obvious issue on the agenda of the summit is the Lisbon Treaty rejected by the Irish nation in the only referendum held on the subject across the continent. Just before the summit, the scandal that made headlines also in Poland is the transcript of a meeting between the Czech President Vaclav Klaus with European Parliament members, including the controversial far left Green party leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit. Polish press has commented on the scandalous behavior of the Treaty supporters, who were trying to force Vaclav Klaus to sign the Treaty in a highly inappropriate and disrespectful manner. "You must sign it!" Cohn-Bendit reportedly shouted at Klaus.

'If under the Lisbon Treaty  the European debate is supposed to look like these higher officials of the EU showed in the Czech Republic, then we really have to consider this seriously. Introducing the Lisbon Treaty by means of these kinds of methods of persuasion - attacks on legally elected heads of national states - this is unacceptable,' commented Pawel Kowal, deputy head of the Polish Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Commission.
 
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