The construction of Nord Stream 2 is to be resumed this week after it was postponed due to a storm. However, the brewing political storm makes it impossible to acknowledge the project as a done deal, despite the rumors about talks between the U.S. and Germany. And Poland has now found itself in its eye. This is an opportunity to test our ability to achieve our foreign policy goals and potential to play with the big boys in the major league of international politics – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor in chief at BiznesAlert.pl.
Polish Briefing: V4 can use violet hydrogen to undermine Nord Stream 2
What goes on in Poland on the 17th of February.
Polish Briefing: Orlen will decrease oil import from Russia
What goes in Poland on 16th of February.
Who will lead the hydrogen economy in the CEE region?
Interest in hydrogen technologies is definitely on the rise. Countries and companies are testing their options in order not to be left behind and to find their own niches in the emerging hydrogen economy. Poland, compared to the rest of CEE region, started with an impetus, but in order to become a leader, the country will need bold and well-planned actions – writes Łukasz Antas, Managing partner at Esperis Consulting, board member of Emerging Futures Institute
Rajewski: A nuclear power plant in Poland is an economic opportunity (INTERVIEW)
The construction of a nuclear power plant creates numerous and very diverge opportunities for Polish contractors. For instance the installation of electrical wiring, which some disparagingly call „cable-laying” is an important part of the works, without which no power plant, not just a nuclear one, would be able to launch – Adam Rajewski from the Institute of Heat Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology explained in an interview with BiznesAlert.pl.
Polish Briefing: Will the Baltic rail connect windmills in Poland and Denmark?
What goes on in Poland on the 15th of February.
Zielińska: negotiations on the social contract are hermetic and lacking in realism
The debate on phasing out coal is taking place behind closed doors in ministries, among a narrow group of people, often in secret. Even though local governments will be directly impacted by the transition neither they nor other social partners are permanent members of the negotiation team – Urszula Zielińska, MP from the Civic Coalition – Green Party, writes.
Morawiecki: Nord Stream 2 as a bridge to Russia is a recipe for disaster
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, once again referred to the words of the German president Frank Walter Steinmeier about the need to maintain contacts with Russia through the Nord Stream 2 project. – Bridges between Europe and Russia cannot be built over the heads of Central and Eastern Europe. Otherwise, it is more like mining a bridge than strengthening it. This is a recipe for disaster, not reconstruction – he wrote on Facebook.
Polish Briefing: PGE and Orsted to invest PLN 35-40 billion in Baltic offshore
What goes on in Poland on the 12th of February.
Will the EU deal a blow to Russia with a new carbon measure?
The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is a new tax on carbon footprint. It is one of the mechanisms that the European Union wants to use to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. Potentially the CBAM is also the proverbial „big stick” that can be used on companies that want to escape the EU to avoid climate neutrality. It may also impact states that do not want to go through the green transition, but still profit from exporting to the EU goods whose production causes large GHG emissions into the atmosphere – Mariusz Marszałkowski, editor at BiznesAlert.pl, writes.