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A news release from the North Atlantic Alliance summit in Brussels from 11-12 July included a record on energy security. One can also find allusion to Nord Stream 2.

The NATO-Russia Founding Act adopted in 1997 reflected the consensus within the Alliance that new security architecture in Europe should be based on three pillars: enlargement of transformed NATO, European integration and partnership with Russia. Self-limitation on the stationing and deployment of troops in the territories of new NATO members was conditioned upon Russia’s observance of the […]

On 12 June, Norway’s ministers of defence and foreign affairs announced that the Norwegian government and parliament had granted approval for the rotational stationing of the US Marines to continue in Norway for the next five years and for an increase of the US contingent from 330 to 700 soldiers. Soldiers from the US Marine […]

The duration of the contract and the annual gas trade – these are important and symbolic information that break through the contracts for LNG supplies from the USA signed by PGNiG. The most intriguing, however, is the economic side of the contract, which we can not have insight in due to the confidentiality of the […]

The price of liquefied gas from the USA is indexed to Henry Hub. I expect that this is how the pricing conditions for this contract were formulated. Of course, the cost of gas condensation, followed by freight and insurance, should also be added to its total price. We do not know how comprehensive the contract […]

Austria and Germany are blocking the works on the Gas Directive, which may subordinate the contested Nord Stream 2 to EU law, using fatigue of the topic in Brussels – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl.

What goes on in Poland on the 29th of May.

On 22 May, the Russian State Duma adopted a law on measures to counter the hostile actions of the United States and other countries (the so-called counter-sanctions law). In the coming days it will be adopted by the Federation Council and signed by the President. The law includes six general potential restrictions, which the Russian […]

The Russians defend Nord Stream 2 and criticize its potential competition, LNG from the USA. The message is at least two-way. They convince the West that it will lose financially on abandoning the dependence on gas from Russia and that LNG from the USA is not a threat to Gazprom, because Europeans are buying it […]

The information that at the top of the Bucharest nine, talks are to be held on the Three Seas fund, which may be supported the United States, has been confirmed, writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl.