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The European Council together with the European Parliament and the European Commission will be working out a new European electricity market design, in trilogue negotiations, over the coming months. As a result, the new regulatory design for the EU electricity market is taking shape, but there are concerns in the sector regarding the new rules […]

Almost at the last moment, Russia informed that it would conduct rocket tests in the Baltic Sea, which caused serious concerns in the countries neighbouring that sea. Latvia was especially outraged because Russian rockets would appear in the airspace of its economic zone. Provocative tests are another Russian step towards the reinforcement of its military […]

The problems of the Chinese company CEFC in the Czech Republic pose a question not only about economic security related to Chinese investments, but also about the political security of Central Europe – writes Łukasz Kołtuniak for BiznesAlert.pl.

– Even if not competitive on price, US LNG seems to have already had some positive impact in Europe in terms of introducing more competition and another source of gas – says professor Susan Sakmar from the University of Houston in an interview for BiznesAlert.pl, lawyer and author of a book about the LNG market „Energy […]

Spolana Neratovice, part of the refinery and petrochemical group Unipetrol, continues to modernize its production facility. Its management has signed a contract with the supply consortium ČEZ Energetické služby and Envir & Power Ostrava for construction of a new heating plant for production of steam that is essential for the site’s operation. The construction will […]

PJSC “UKRTRANSGAZ” and GAZ-SYSTEM S.A., gas transmission system operators of Ukraine and Poland respectively, launch the non-binding market screening procedure.

While the government in the heat of criticism explains its diplomatic penetrations with ever new countries in the background, there remains the improvement of some relations a little unnoticed. Yes, I know that exceptions confirm the rule, but it is worth noting. Lithuania is such an example – writes Karolina Baca-Pogorzelska from Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.

On March 16th, a conference called „Reviewing the Gas Directive: Opportunities and Challenges” was held in Brussels. Speakers discussed advantages and disadvantages of the new law and implications it may have on the controversial Nord Stream 2 project.

On Wednesday the committee for industry and energy of the European Parliament adopted a stance supporting the draft amendment to the gas directive, which is especially opposed by Nord Stream 2 investors. In the European Parliament there were many opponents to accept the mandate for further negotiations on these regulations.

On 12 March, the British Prime Minister Theresa May issued an ultimatum that the Russian government explain how the Novichok combat nerve agent, which has been produced in Russia since the 1980s, came to be used on 4 March in Salisbury against Sergey Skripal (a British citizen and a former GRU colonel convicted in Russia […]