Poland needs 40 bn euro to meet environment criteria

The EU's champion candidate country, Poland, appears already to be on collision course with Brussels over environmental targets that it needs to reach. Warsaw has to spend 40 bn euro, the amount equal to Polish public annual budget, in order to meet EU environmental criteria over several years after its accession to the EU.

Yet without significant aid from the European Union, Poland will not manage to adjust to environmental requirements set by the EU15, Polish minister for environment ...