European Union.

As every year the thematic track titled „Europe of the Carpathians” kicked off at the 27th Economic Forum in Krynica. It was opened by a panel on cooperation between the Three Seas Initiative countries. 

At the Economic Forum in Krynica representatives of the government and state-owned companies are implying they are ready to adopt an energy policy that is less dependent on coal – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, BiznesAlert.pl’s editor in chief.

What goes on in Poland on the 31st of August.

As part of my work for Free Russia Foundation, I am carrying out research on two projects. The first one is devoted to influencing that Gazprom and its pipeline projects have in the EU. The second is an ongoing project called Underminers which focuses on agents of post-Soviet corruption in the West and will be fully launched […]

What goes on in Poland on the 29th of August.

The cooperation between Norway and Poland in the energy sector has recently taken very tangible shape. In 2016, Poland decided to launch the Northern Gate project—a set of gas interconnections aiming to link the Polish gas market with gas deposits on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. With that decision, Poland wants to diversify away from Russia […]

A discussion on Poland’s first nuclear power plant has yet again broken out in the Polish media. The Gazeta Prawna daily claimed that China was the main candidate for our technological partner. However, it is too early to say – writes Piotr Stępiński, editor at BiznesAlert.pl

While analysing the relation between Nord Stream 2 (NS2) and European policy making, the reference point should be the statement of the German Vice-Chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, who, during a bilateral meeting with President Vladimir Putin in October 2015, declared, regarding NS2, that Germany will “ensure that all this remains under the competence of the German […]

In order to permanently limit pollutant emissions and transition to a low- and zero-emissions economy, the European Union compels to introduce significant changes in the energy mix already at the beginning of the next decade, i.e. since September 2021 to limit emissions of sulphur dioxide, nitric oxide, mercury and dust on the basis of the […]

Putting lipstick on the mining pig is now at full throttle and I guess nobody but me actually cares. I am only wondering what will happen when they run out of this fantastic lipstick, writes Karolina Baca-Pogorzelska from Gazeta Prawna daily (DGP).