What goes on in Poland on the 5th of October.
Poland wants an investigation into gas price manipulation by Gazprom with Nord Stream 2 in the picture
The Polish Press Agency reports that Warsaw expects the European Commission to investigate the possibility that Gazprom may be manipulating the natural gas market in Europe, leading to an increase in prices. The issue is to be discussed during the upcoming summit of the Council of the European Union.
The agency’s source stated that the reason for the increase in gas prices is, among others, Gazprom’s policy of limiting gas supplies to individual EU countries, causing a hike in gas prices. They also explained that the capacity booked for the two main gas pipelines that transmit the raw material from Russia to the EU (via Belarus and Poland, and Ukraine and Slovakia) has been almost halved. „The gaps in the transmission of the gas are significant and gas storage facilities have not been filled up, both of which contributes to the prices growing,” said the diplomat.
„Our source also claimed that it is possible that the topic will appear at the informal dinner of EU leaders scheduled for Tuesday, which will be held before the Wednesday EU-Western Balkans summit in Slovenia. They also indicated that there is a good chance that in the conclusions of the EU summit, which will be held at the end of October, there will be provisions on the gas market and Gazprom, including a call to the EC to investigate the actions of the Russian giant, which are resulting in an increase in gas prices,” the Polish Press Agency wrote.
KGHM says buyers are interested in its assets in the US and Chile
KGHM is “hopeful” as regards the possibility of selling the Carlota mine in the United States and the Franke mine in Chile, said Paweł Gruza, vice-president of KGHM.
„We are in the process of selling our two assets: Carloty and Franke. We are carrying out the process, we have prepared it with great effort, so as to protect the interests of KGHM. We are hopeful, we have an interest in these assets. There are various options – either one entity will buy both mines, or there will be two transactions,” said Gruza in the corridors of the National Economic Summit in Lublin. The VP believes that “companies noticing synergy” are interested in the assets. „I can say that these are not companies from the so-called top ten,” Gruza added.