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EU could force Poland to pay lignite-coal fine
By EUobserver
The European Commission could withhold funds from Poland's EU budget pot in event of non-payment of a €500,000-a-day EU court fine over a highly-polluting coal mine, it said on Thursday. "If payment [of the fine] is not executed [in due time] ... the fine is to be recovered by deductions from [budget] payments due to the given member state," the commission press service told Polish news website Onet.pl.