What goes on in Poland on the 17th of July.
Polish Briefing: Ukraine wants synchronization with the EU and an energy hub with Poland
What goes on in Poland on the 12th of July.
Energy in a news release from the NATO summit in Brussels. An allusion to Nord Stream 2?
A news release from the North Atlantic Alliance summit in Brussels from 11-12 July included a record on energy security. One can also find allusion to Nord Stream 2.
PISM: How Russian Violations of the 1997 Founding Act Influence NATO-Russia Relations
The NATO-Russia Founding Act adopted in 1997 reflected the consensus within the Alliance that new security architecture in Europe should be based on three pillars: enlargement of transformed NATO, European integration and partnership with Russia. Self-limitation on the stationing and deployment of troops in the territories of new NATO members was conditioned upon Russia’s observance of the rule-based order. After the annexation of Crimea, the Allies decided to respect the spirit of the Founding Act to limit the risk of escalation and defend the security system Russia is interested in derailing. The Allies, however, should adopt a less dogmatic approach to NRFA, which would offer additional flexibility in strengthening NATO’s cohesion and influencing Russian calculations – write Anna Maria Dyner, Artur Kacprzyk, Wojciech Lorenz and Marcin Terlikowski, analysts of the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM).
Polish Briefing: Ukraine is a reliable partner in gas supplies to Europe
What goes on in Poland on the 11th of July.
Pulaski Foundation: Strategy for the energy crisis communication
The roundtable meeting “Strategy for the energy crisis communication” was held on July 2, 2018 in the office of Hennadii Udovenko Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine. It was the third workshop in the project “Energy security and effective strategic communication the civil and governmental actors: V4+Ukraine” sponsored by International Visegrad Fund.
OSW: US Marines in northern Norway
On 12 June, Norway’s ministers of defence and foreign affairs announced that the Norwegian government and parliament had granted approval for the rotational stationing of the US Marines to continue in Norway for the next five years and for an increase of the US contingent from 330 to 700 soldiers. Soldiers from the US Marine Corps (USMC) have been stationed on a rotational basis in central Norway (Vaernes near Trondheim) participating in training and exercises across the country since January 2017. At present, the US-Norwegian deal envisages a rotational presence of the second US contingent in Setermoen in Troms county in northern Norway – writes Justyna Gotkowska, analyst at OSW.
Polish Briefing: A team at the Ministry of Energy is to accelerate the Polish nuclear project
What goes on in Poland on the 10th of July.
PGNiG deals give a chance for cheaper LNG in the future
The duration of the contract and the annual gas trade – these are important and symbolic information that break through the contracts for LNG supplies from the USA signed by PGNiG. The most intriguing, however, is the economic side of the contract, which we can not have insight in due to the confidentiality of the contracts. LNG technology is becoming more and more popular and it will be to mitigate its biggest disadvantages in the future, that is costs. Popularizing each technology makes them cheaper – said Paweł Poprawa in an interview with BiznesAlert.pl.
PISM: Nord Stream 2. Inconvenient Questions
As the European Union faces a range of pressing challenges, there is one issue that merits special attention: The Russian gas pipeline running on the Baltic Sea seabed. Although it is often portrayed as “purely commercial”, the purpose of Nord Stream 2 is anything but that. It is intended to rewrite the politics of natural gas supply to Europe for years to come and to solidify Russia’s position on the EU gas market. Beyond economic and market considerations, a number of issues leave no doubt that the “blue fuel”, rather than becoming an increasingly tradable commodity, remains one of Russia’s principal instruments of pressure and coercion, both political and economic – write Aleksandra Gawlikowska-Fyk, Marcin Terlikowski, Bartosz Wiśniewski and Szymon Zaręba, analysts of the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM).