Currently, PLN 2 billion has been earmarked in the budget for the energy price freeze, which is approximately half of the total amount required, said Paulina Hennig-Kloska, Minister of Climate and Environment. She added that the government has also earmarked PLN 4 billion to reduce health insurance premiums for entrepreneurs.
Reduction in health insurance premiums
We have secured four billion to reduce health insurance premiums, we want this money to go mainly to micro-enterprises. And this is (…) the Poland 2050 promise that we are implementing
— said Paulina Hennig-Kloska, Minister of Climate and Environment, on neo-TVP Info.
We agreed that these four billion, through negotiations with the Minister of Finance, would be guaranteed for a reduction and relief for entrepreneurs.
– she added. She said this is “the first step we are taking.”
When asked what the final form of this reduction would be, she said it was… a secondary issue, and the most important thing was who would be affected by the reduction. She said she would ensure that this support reached micro-enterprises. She added that the goal was also to eliminate the “absurdity” of health insurance premiums being charged on the sale of fixed assets.
Only half the amount to freeze energy prices!
Hennig-Kloska also referred to the announcement of a freeze on electricity prices until the end of 2025.
At the moment, we have partially secured the budget amount, i.e. PLN 2 billion. (…) We need to prepare the second, extra-budgetary part. The energy price freeze has always had several financing pillars, but it has never been fully financed by the budget. We are now building this second stage and then we will be able to present the final solution.
– informed the minister.
He pointed out that the cost of extending the maximum price for households for another whole year would cost approximately PLN 4.5 billion.
We have already secured half of this amount, we are looking for the other half
she said.
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When asked when 20 percent of the forests – according to the coalition agreement – will be excluded from logging, she replied that “basically” the work is “nearly completed”. She added that according to information she received this Tuesday from the State Director General of Forests, Witold Koss, 2024 will end with the exclusion of approximately 10 percent of forests.
Yesterday I talked to Director Koss and these reserves, all these various forms that are being worked on now, community forests, this moratorium that they are working on today will constitute about 10%. state forests
– said the minister.
Looking at the actions of the current team, it seems reasonable to ask whether, with such a scale of debt, the government of Donald Tusk and Minister Hennig-Kloska will be able to find the second half to freeze electricity prices?
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