oil.

During a visit to Saudi Arabia, Poland’s PM Mateusz Morawiecki talked about increasing  oil supplies from outside Russia. The trip is part of Poland’s diplomatic offensive in the Middle East with the participation of Poland’s President. Morawiecki stressed the importance of Arabia for the stability of the oil market. Meanwhile, new figures show that Arabs […]

Poland’s Prime Minister accused the largest opposition party of „favoring oil and gas from Russia”, but the truth is more complicated. Poland managed to become independent of Russian hydrocarbons thanks to both the Civic Platform and the Law and Justice party continuing on a path of diversification – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor in chief at […]

What goes on in Poland on the 27th of February.

„The Leuna refinery is not working at 100 percent capacity. We expect that it will work at an even much lower level, because Gdańsk does not keep its promises,” says Sepp Müller, a politician of the Christian Democratic Union, in an interview with BiznesAlert.pl.

BiznesAlert.pl has reported about the German plan to introduce a special act that would remove the Russian Rosneft from the Schwedt refinery. The shares could be taken over by Poland’s Orlen. The pro-Russian AfD party has criticized the possible entry of Poles, because the buy would be too cheap.

What goes on in Poland on the 14th of February.

Not so long ago, in 2021, a quarter of the EU’s EUR 48 billion worth of oil came from Russia. The invasion of Ukraine prompted the EU states to impose sanctions on this commodity. However, the sanctions contain loopholes that have made Poland the largest importer of Russian oil in the EU. Nevertheless, tightening the […]

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

The Russians announced an intergovernmental agreement with China on building a natural gas pipeline in the Far East that will carry 10 bcm a year. This project is not an alternative to contracts on the EU market that are supplied from another raw material base.

The European Council summit on February 9 will be attended by the President of Ukraine, who will seek new sanctions for Russia’s invasion of his country. It is not very likely that Poland’s request to impose sanctions on the Druzhba oil pipeline will be met. Warsaw wants the pipe to be sanctioned to drop the […]