Poland defiant despite two-week warning to stop illegal deforestation or be fined €100,000 a day

he Polish environment minister has claimed Poland is fully compliant with the EU over controversial logging in one of Europe’s last areas of primeval forest after it was threatened with fines of at least €100,000 a day if it refused to end the practice. At a press conference on Tuesday Jan Szyszko, Poland’s environment minister, insisted Poland was in “100 per cent compliance with European Commission recommendations” over management of the Bialowieza Forest.
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