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Poland in talks with Ukraine about participation of Polish companies in its reconstruction
Poland is in talks with Ukraine to rebuild the country after the Russian invasion. On May 15, the government appointed a Plenipotentiary for Polish-Ukrainian Cooperation on Development, whose responsibilities will include coordinating the participation of Polish firms in this process.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki met with Ruslan Stefanchuk, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The talks focused on the security of the region in the face of the Russian invasion and the reconstruction of Ukraine after the war. The PM announced Jadwiga Emilewicz, Development Minister between 2018 and 2020, will become the Plenipotentiary for Polish-Ukrainian Cooperation on Development.
The meeting between Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Chariman Ruslan Stefanczuk also touched on constructive and fair dialogue between our countries on historical issues.
Chancellery Of The Prime Minister / Jędrzej Stachura
Germany expects Poland to deliver oil, despite not derusifying the Schwedt refinery
Germany has not yet expelled the Russians from the Schwedt refinery, but is counting on non-Russian supplies through the Polish naftoport in May.
Brandenburg economy minister Jörg Steinbach said in a speech at the 23rd Brandenburg Energy Day on May 25 that he had spoken with the state secretary in the Federal Ministry for Energy Michael Kellner, who allegedly confirmed that the deliveries of oil to the Schwedt refinery (PCK), which were announced at the end of May, will be carried out by the Polish side. Deliveries from Poland’s naftoport (2-3 million tonnes) and Kazakhstan (1-1.2 million tonnes) are expected to keep Schwedt’s capacity at 70 percent.
The Climate Ministries of Poland and Germany cooperate under an agreement for supplies through the Polish naftoport. However, Poland says that it will not service orders from Russia’s Rosneft, which has a 54 percent stake at the Schwedt refinery. The German government did not change the ownership structure of the refinery, but imposed a trusteeship on these shares in September 2022. The Poles are still demanding that the facility be derusified. They regularly carry out deliveries ordered by other Schwedt shareholders, including the Dutch-British Shell.
The Schwedt refinery processes 10-11 million tons of oil per year. In addition to deliveries through the naftoport in Poland, it also receives 5-6 million tons of oil through the Rostock oil pipeline, where such a facility is also located, as well as through the Friendship Oil Pipeline from Russia used for deliveries billed as those from Kazakhstan.
Aleksandra Fedorska / Wojciech Jakóbik
Americans signed an agreement on building Poland’s first NPP. Warsaw will become a nuclear training center for the entire region
Poland’s Climate Minister revealed on the occasion of the establishment of the Bechtel-Westinghouse Consortium that will build an NPP in Pomeriania, that soon a project agreement will be signed and a training center for the entire region will be established.
“The contractor will be the American giant Bechtel,” said the Minister of Climate and Environment Anna Moskwa during the signing of the contract for the Bechtel-Westinghouse Consortium.
“This agreement will lead to the creation of a consortium of two nuclear companies. It will make it possible to prepare the next stage, that is, design and engineering work. There will be more good news in the summer. All these steps bring us closer to starting construction in 2026 and make the plan for finishing the construction of the reactor in 2033 increasingly more realistic. Thanks to that, nuclear power will provide a quarter of power generation in Poland,” said Anna Moskwa.
“Soon, with the American side, we will announce the opening of a training center that will serve not only Poland, but the entire region,” she added. U.S. ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski has revealed that it will be opened in Warsaw. “Experts from all over the world will come to Warsaw to learn from our specialists,” the ambassador said. The so-called US nuclear training mission is to visit Warsaw on 20-22 September to discuss the supply chain for the nuclear sector in Poland.
Wojciech Jakóbik
