Some 800,000 jobs across Europe will be wiped out following the adoption of EU climate change legislation last year, warned Poland’s Solidarno?? trade union. Jaroslaw Grzesik, deputy head of energy at Solidarno??, said Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and the Czech Republic would suffer most because of their reliance on coal for electricity production. “We’re going to lose jobs in states where coal is used,” Grzesik told a conference organised by Confrontations Europe, a think-tank, citing EU countries located on the bloc’s eastern border. “But Germany, the UK and Scandinavia will also suffer,” he told the conference, held on 23 June in Brussels. He also warned the move would force electricity prices up, possibly pushing low-income households into energy poverty.