What goes on in Poland on the 27th of October.
What did Poland propose regarding the energy crisis?
The EU states failed to find a common response to the energy crisis during the latest meeting of the Council of the European Union and postponed the decisions until December. We know what Poland proposed.
Energy Intel found that the countries split along the North-South line, where the northern wanted to focus on short-term measures and south on long-term reforms. These include reforms of the gas market proposed by Spain and supported by the South.
Poles positioned themselves closer to the countries of the South. They demanded EU action on speculation on the EU ETS market, a reduction in the price of CO2 emission allowances with the help of changes in the stabilization reserve mechanism of the SMR, an anti-monopoly investigation against Gazprom, which could have disrupted the functioning of the gas market. Poland also called for developing a strategic gas reserve, adding nuclear power and natural gas to the taxonomy, as well as opening discussions on new mechanisms to support the energy transition and fight energy poverty.
Anna Moskwa will be the new Minister of Climate and Environment
Anna Moskwa will be the new climate minister, replacing Michał Kurtyka in this position, informed Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. In the past, Moskwa was also the Deputy Minister of Maritime Economy and Inland Navigation, and recently she managed Baltic Power, a company of PKN Orlen and Northland Power.
Michał Kurtyka said goodbye to the Ministry of Climate and Environment. As he informed during a press conference, Tuesday was the last day of his term as head of the ministry. During the afternoon conference, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced that Michał Kurtyka, for personal reasons, decided to resign from the post of climate minister and that Anna Moskwa will take over the leadership of this ministry.
Moskwa is a graduate of international relations, sociology and economics at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, the Catholic University of Lublin and the University of Warsaw. She worked as the director of the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Maritime Economy and Inland Navigation, and then as a deputy minister in the same ministry until the liquidation of the ministry in October 2020. After that, she joined the management board of Baltic Power, PKN Orlen and Northland Power, of which she was the president.