European Parliament.

The pressure on the Nord Stream 2 project in Brussels is increasing. Although there are no prospects of blocking it, Poles and other critics of this undertaking are consistently working on solutions that can at least delay it, and at least partially protect it from member countries through EU law. The Russian party in the […]

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.

After the failure to subject the controversial Nord Stream 2 project to the Third Energy Package and to acquire the mandate to negotiate a legal regime with Russia, the European Commission wants to update the offshore pipelines regulations to finally apply the EU law to the project – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, BiznesAlert.pl’s editor in chief.

What goes on in Poland on the 6th of October.

On Tuesday 12 September, the European Parliament adopted regulations on the security of gas deliveries at first reading. According to the press release published on the EP’s webpage, every EU Member State that will face a gas shortage will be able to notify its neighbors and trigger cross-border assistance to prevent the decrease in supply. […]

What goes on in Poland on the 18th of September.

What goes on in Poland on the 15th of September.

„The European Parliament is able to stop the construction of Nord Stream 2,” argues professor Jerzy Buzek, Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), in an interview for Biznesalert.pl. In his opinion, it would be a lot more profitable for European companies to invest in the Ukrainian transmission network. 

Polish-Chinese nuclear energy agreement  Vice-Minister of Energy Andrzej Piotrowski and his Chinese counterpart Li Fanrong signed a Polish-Chinese agreement on cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy, reported the Ministry of Energy. „Currently China uses 36 nuclear reactors and is building another 20. The first nuclear block in China was opened in 1991 and […]