- Donald Tusk is not himself under pressure. As head of the European Council and leader of the EPP, he supported the expansion of the ETS system and further Green Deal solutions. Today, under the pressure of the President and growing Polish opposition, he is trying to portray himself as a defender of free allowances. This is political hypocrisy that cannot be covered up by ad hoc declarations - wrote Paweł Szefernaker on social media.

As the head of the President's chancellery noted: - Free allowances are definitely not enough. Concrete actions are needed:

• removal of financial institutions from the ETS trading market,
• introduction of effective mechanisms to limit EU ETS prices,
• abandonment of the ETS2 system.

- The Polish interest today requires much more than correcting mistakes that Donald Tusk previously co-created. The goal of our state should be to bring about the liquidation of the current EU ETS system – a system created and pushed by Donald Tusk and the EPP environment, the consequence of which today is the weakening of competitiveness and the decline of European, including Polish, industry - wrote Szefernaker.

Donald Tusk pod presją nie jest sobą. Jako szef Rady Europejskiej i lider EPP wspierał rozbudowę systemu ETS oraz kolejne rozwiązania Zielonego Ładu. Dziś, pod wpływem presji Prezydenta i rosnącego sprzeciwu Polaków, próbuje przedstawiać się jako obrońca darmowych uprawnień. To…

— Paweł Szefernaker 🇵🇱 (@szefernaker) March 18, 2026