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What goes on in Poland on the 12th of June.

Alexander Lukashenko dismissed Syarhey Rumas’s government on June 3. Rumas’s position as Prime Minister was taken over by Roman Golovchenko. On 9 of August presidential elections will be held. Few observers believe that after this date a new person will sit in the presidential office, but the opposition candidates are growing stronger. Those include Viktar […]

The draft version of new US sanctions against Nord Stream 2 presented on the 4th of June includes a section which had not leaked to the press before. Blocking the gas pipeline’s certification increases the odds that it won’t be completed – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor in chief at BiznesAlert.pl.

What goes on in Poland on the 8th of June.

What goes on in Poland on the 4th of June.

The US is threatening new sanctions to block the Nord Stream 2 project. The measures may target gas deliveries via the controversial pipeline, but it would be truly shocking if they were imposed on Gazprom itself – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor in chief at BiznesAlert.pl.

Water shortages are affecting the better part of Europe. Poland is also facing droughts with increased frequency. This problem poses a huge threat to farming, as well as everyday life. Crimea has had the same issue for over a dozen years and it is becoming more and more severe – writes Mariusz Marszałkowski, editor at […]

Professor Jerzy Buzek, former prime minister and current member of the ITRE Committee at the European Parliament explains the impact of the amended Gas Directive, which does not target any specific project, but protects against gas market abuse. “The fact that these regulations hurt Nord Stream so badly says a lot, but it doesn’t say […]

It is hard to present specific figures about the Yamal gas pipeline because the majority of data is a trade secret. However, it has been established that the new rules for operating the pipeline are still a hybrid solution that may change once the problematic historical contracts with Russia expire – write Wojciech Jakóbik and […]

Agata Łoskot-Strachota from the Centre for Eastern Studies writes about the consequences of applying the EU Gas Directive to the contentious Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. “One of the options Nord Stream 2 AG may choose is to divide the gas pipeline on paper into two parts: one section would run where the EU law […]