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„It is crucial for the entire NATO and Poland to build the ability to repel conventional and hybrid aggression,” Michał Piekarski, PhD., tells BiznesAlert.pl in response to the news that Germany is exercising a scenario where Russia attacks NATO’s eastern flank, including Poland.

One of the two threads of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline survived the 2022 sabotage and Gazprom and the pipe’s owner, on which the US has imposed sanctions, have a year left for a reset with Russia to save the project. Its opponents have a similar time frame to finish the Russian-German pipe off […]

„The lessons from Nord Stream 1 and 2 reveal that the history of our energy relations is full of controversy and taboo topics. We need a formula for talking about difficult issues, because they will always come up, as in the case of nuclear power,” Agata Łoskot-Strachota from the Center for Eastern Studies and Bruegel […]

German opponents of the construction of a container port in Poland’s Świnoujście yet again disseminate inaccurate and erroneous information to the press about their actions and the new terminal. This time they claim to be fighting for the rule of law.

Shell’s minority stake in the German refinery Schwedt will go to the Prax Group from the UK after talks on this issue with Poland’s Unimot. Earlier, Orlen had failed to take over the shares of the Russian Rosneft, which remains the majority shareholder of the plant.

The French are working on a letter to heads of development banks calling for support for nuclear projects across the world in a different formula. Deploying funds from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development would make it possible to expand nuclear technology across the world and France could lead this movement, just like Germany […]

Czechia has reserved access to 2 billion cubic meters of gas from the Stade LNG terminal in Germany as of 2027. Poland had conducted market research to verify if there were enough clients to commission a second FSRU unit that would dock at the Gdańsk Bay, but it turned out there weren’t.

„The EU Electricity Market Design Reform (EMD) is a response to the energy crisis and the soaring gas and electricity prices. This solution is good for Poland, so we need to hurry,” says Ryszard Pawlik, advisor to MEP Jerzy Buzek in an interview with BiznesAlert.pl.

The Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan said that it was talking about increasing oil supplies to Germany via Russia to 2 million tons per year. The use of the Friendship Oil Pipeline is controversial, and the talks are coordinated with the Russians.

The future of the EU energy market has been determined by France, Poland and Germany. The French will be able to use differential contracts to finance nuclear power plants, and the Poles and Germans have received a derogation on coal in the power market – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief BiznesAlert.pl.