Jakóbik: Gazprom fills up the tank of EU enemies in Poland 

„The Court’s verdict on the OPAL dispute will be made as late as in 2019. However, because of the Court’s President’s decision, until then Russian monopoly would be theoretically possible over the pipeline that transmits Russian gas through Germany to Central and Eastern Europe. However, the auctions will take place only in August 2018,” writes […]

Poland demands Nord Stream 2 to be buried under the seabed. „It will impede development of Polish ports”

Last Friday in the town of Straslund in northern Germany, a Polish delegation justified their concerns about Nord Stream 2 construction to German officials. The meeting took place in the local Mining Office. According to the Polish Radio’s unofficial sources Poland demands that the gas pipeline be buried below the seabed. The Nord Stream 2 […]

Naimski: in 2022 we won’t need a contract with Gazprom

Piotr Naimski, the Government Plenipotentiary for Strategic Energy Infrastructure, was a guest in the „Kwadrans Polityczny” program on TVP1. „At the end of 2022 Poland will be able to import gas from completely different sources and via different routes than currently. Today we are almost entirely dependent on gas imports from Russia and Gazprom,” he […]

Buzek: the European Parliament may stop Nord Stream 2 (interview) 

„The European Parliament is able to stop the construction of Nord Stream 2,” argues professor Jerzy Buzek, Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), in an interview for Biznesalert.pl. In his opinion, it would be a lot more profitable for European companies to invest in the Ukrainian transmission network. 

Nord Stream 2: Scoop at the European Commission’s mandate

I‘ve gained access to the draft mandate of the European Council for EC negotiations with Russia on the Nord Stream 2 project. It’s a classified document and only a few people have access to it in every Member State, which means legally I am only allowed to discuss it”, says Wojciech Jakóbik, editor in chief […]

OSW: The first meeting of Presidents Putin and Trump

The G20 summit held in Hamburg on 7 July saw the first meeting between the President of Russia Vladimir Putin and the US President Donald Trump. The talks, in which the two countries’ foreign ministers also took part, lasted 2 hours and 20 minutes (instead of the 35 minutes announced previously) – write Szymon Kardaś […]

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