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Buzek: Poland is standing in a “draught” regarding the discussion on climate neutrality (INTERVIEW)

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Even though Poland has not yet agreed to support the EU climate neutrality goal, the legislation whose goal is to reach the target is already binding for us. This means we are standing in some kind of a nightmarish “draught”, which never ends well – warns professor Jerzy Buzek, Poland’s former prime minister and a current member of the European Parliament’s ITRE Committee.

The past is still a burden for the Yamal gas pipeline (ANALYSIS)

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It is hard to present specific figures about the Yamal gas pipeline because the majority of data is a trade secret. However, it has been established that the new rules for operating the pipeline are still a hybrid solution that may change once the problematic historical contracts with Russia expire – write Wojciech Jakóbik and Mariusz Marszałkowski from BiznesAlert.pl.

Will Gazprom split Nord Stream 2?

Agata Łoskot-Strachota from the Centre for Eastern Studies writes about the consequences of applying the EU Gas Directive to the contentious Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. “One of the options Nord Stream 2 AG may choose is to divide the gas pipeline on paper into two parts: one section would run where the EU law doesn’t work – from the pipe’s starting point in Russia to the border of Germany’s territorial waters, and the second section – across Germany’s territorial waters” – she predicts.

Reform the coal and energy sectors, or the market will do it

By the end of June the Ministry of State Assets will present a plan for reforming Poland’s coal industry. However, Jacek Sasin, head of the ministry and deputy prime minister, said his goal was to keep the miners’ jobs and argued the coronavirus would not be a pretext to undertake long-term actions about mines. So the question is: how to reform the industry without losing jobs? – asks Bartłomiej Sawicki, editor at BiznesAlert.pl.