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Nord Stream 2 sponsors athletes to gain in the eyes of Western societies. It does so, however, to pursue the political goals of the Kremlin, which allows a slow starving death of political prisoner Oleg Sencov, writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl.

Europe and Germany should “share in America’s abundance” and cooperate with the US in energy policy by buying natural gas from America, the US ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, writes together with US deputy secretary of energy Dan Brouillette in a guest article in the Handelsblatt.

It is “feasible” that the UN climate summit in Katowice in December (COP24) will produce an agreement on implementation guidelines (also called rulebook or work programme) to the Paris Climate Agreement, Germany’s negotiator Nicole Wilke from the environment ministry has told journalists.

– According to the data provided by BiznesAlert.pl, the Nord Stream 2 project may be implemented with at least six months delay. If it becomes necessary to change of the route we wrote about, the gas pipeline may be created even a year later. This would weaken Gazprom’s position in talks on transmission contracts with […]

The third Three Seas summit, which will take place in Bukarest on 17-18 September this year, is still the beginning of a long road of the 12 countries of Central and Southeastern Europe, whose goal is the economic and civilization consolidation of the region. Very late-develope, compared with Western Europe. The U.S. entered the game, […]

You should not expect too much from the US on Nord Stream 2, because the United States may start to expect too much from Warsaw. Washington is currently running a transaction policy even against its closest allies, like Poland – says Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl.

The German Chancellor met with President Vladimir Putin, who is in charge of the regime waging war in Syria and Ukraine. Angela Merkel counts on an agreement ending the crisis in relations between the West and Russia, because she wants to make money on Nord Stream 2. Russians come out of isolation, symbolic of Putin’s […]

With a national “diesel summit” in early August 2017, the German government tried to curb the fallout of the country’s emissions fraud scandal and avoid being sued by the European Commission over excessive air pollution. One year on, the first diesel driving bans have been put on some city roads, and the Commission has filed […]

Germany’s finance minister and vice chancellor Olaf Scholz has shot down a plan by environment minister Svenja Schulze to introduce ambitious emissions reduction standards across the EU in order to meet the climate targets agreed on in the Paris Agreement, Gerald Traufetter and Simon Hage write in Der Spiegel.

After the failure of Bulgaria, the Austrian presidency delays work on the law that could ensnare Nord Stream 2. This is a threat to the credibility of the European institutions which anti-European forces will benefit from, and thus also Russia. Will the disputed project support the construction of Putintern? – wonders Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of […]