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„Germany wants to shut down its last nuclear reactors at the end of 2022. This is comparable to a situation in which the crew throws out working lifeboats from the sinking Titanic, because they do not like their color,” says Vice President of FOTA4Climate Adam Błażowski in an interview with BiznesAlert.pl.

According to the Russians, the use of the reverse flow on the Yamal gas pipeline in Poland by the Germans is unreasonable. They are joined in criticism by Yulia Tymoshenko accusing Ukraine of paying extra to European intermediaries. In reality, however, it is a routine element of the EU gas market and a prelude to […]

What goes on 27th of December in Poland.

What goes on in Poland on the 13th of December.

On 28 November, the American news website Axios reported on a non-paper that was sent on 19 November by the German government, via the embassy in Washington, to members of the US Congress concerning the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. Its purpose is to convince them not to impose new sanctions on the entities involved […]

The French opinion portal Opinion Internationale has published an extensive analysis on Gazprom restricting gas supply to Europe to force the launch of Nord Stream 2. The piece sheds new light on the dispute over the gas price crisis. Did Russia’s partners in Germany know about it in advance?

German Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA) temporarily suspended the certification of the Nord Stream 2 project. Its operator, Nord Stream 2 AG, will have to create a special purpose company responsible for the management of the gas pipeline in accordance with the EU law of the gas directive.

The current gas crisis has drawn attention to the actual owners of Germany’s gas storage facilities, which are German in name only. However, few have noticed that Germany’s entire gas system is either directly or indirectly managed by Russians. It took Moscow almost 20 years to acquire German energy assets – writes Mariusz Marszałkowski, editor […]

The completion of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, almost two years after the original deadline, does not conclude the dispute over the pipe. The US sanctions and the EU law make it impossible to quickly start gas transmission, despite the fait accompli policy pursued by Gazprom, which is contributing to the high gas prices […]

The situation around Nord Stream 2 is toxic. We are downward spiraling into a security dilemma – states Kirsten Westphal. – Gazprom is seemingly using geo-economic measures against Western Europe for the first time. Poland and Ukraine are used to such situations – states Maria Shagina. Both are authors of an analysis on Nord Stream […]