Opposition party wants PM to present coal-shortage plan

MPs from Poland's main opposition party, the centrist Civic Platform, have demanded that the prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, present a government plan for making up for coal shortages following the end of Russian imports. Coal prices have been on the rise since early 2021 and were further boosted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. In response to the attack, the Polish government decided to ban imports of Russian coal, a move that poses a risk of creating an 8 million-tonne shortfall of the commodity, according to Jacek Sasin, a deputy prime minister.