Contents tagged with Poland
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Polish gas company says agreement between European Commission and Gazprom has been suspended
The Polish national gas operator PGNiG said that the new agreement between the European Commission and the Russian company Gazprom on the use of the OPAL gas pipeline is suspended as of Tuesday, December 27th. This is due to the fact that the European Court in Luxembourg accepted the lawsuit, filed by PGNiG, against Brussels’ new treaty with Moscow. Thus, the new agreement will be frozen until a court in Luxembourg decides on the case.
The European Court of Justice has not yet commented on the …
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Poland buys long-range cruise missiles from the U.S.
Poland and the U.S.A. signed an agreement for the purchase of JASSM Extended Range missiles, which have an operating radius of almost 1,000 kilometers. The contract is worth 940 million zlotys ($222.78 million at 1 zloty = $ 0.237).
"An agreement between the representatives of Poland and the United States was signed a few days ago and guarantees Poland the receipt of the JASSM Extended Range missiles – a modern rocket weapon with a reach of about 1,000 km," the Ministry of Defense of Poland …
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Poland requests that Russia release transcripts of communication between Smolensk tower and Kaczynski's plane
On Saturday, December 24th the Ministry of Defense of Poland demanded that Russia provide the transcript of the communication between the aircraft carrying former Polish President Kaczynski and the Smolensk tower before the aircraft crashed in 2010. Excerpts from the decrypted recordings were quoted by the Russian President Vladimir Putin at the annual press conference on December 23rd.
"The speech of the Russian President Vladimir Putin indicated that the Russian authorities possess the text …
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Ukraine and Poland to cooperate on development of missile technologies
Ukraine's Ukroboronprom State Concern agreed to cooperate with Poland's WB Electronics S.A. on the developmet of anti-aircraft and anti-missile technology, according to a Ukroboronprom press release.
"The leadership of the Ukroboronprom State Concern and Polish company WB Electronics S.A. signed a cooperation agreement on December 22nd, 2016. Ukroboronprom subsidiaries, SFTE Spetstehnoexport and SJSHC Artem, are the direct participants of the cooperation agreement,” the statement read.
"The …
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Poland appealed the European Court’s decision to increase Gazprom’s pipeline access
The Polish government appealed to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg due to the decision to increase access of Gazprom to the key gas pipeline OPAL, which links Nord Stream with Germany. The European Commission adopted this decision in late October, Polskie Radio reported on December 18, with reference to the official representative of Polish Foreign Ministry, Joanna Wajda.
The decision of Brussels was heavily criticized by Warsaw. The Polish administration stated that it recognizes a …
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Poland appeals the decision of the European Commission to expand Gazprom's access to the Opal pipeline
Poland has appealed to the European Court of Justice over a European Commission decision to expand Gazprom's access to the Opal pipeline. This was stated by the Polish Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Joanna Wajda, Gazeta Prawna reported.
According to her, the decision of the EC leads to a concentration of supplies in a single source, which is contrary to the principle of diversification.
"According to Poland, this situation threatens the security of gas supplies to the EU, and particularly in …
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Poland and Britain called for tougher sanctions against Russia
During the EU summit, the possibility of strengthening the sanctions against the Russian Federation was discussed, according to the Prime Minister of Poland, Beata Szydło.
"The first initiative came from the British Prime minister Theresa May. She offered to discuss the possibility of imposing new sanctions related to the events in Syria. This initiative has long been discussed but has not found enough support. But I am sure that we will return to this issue," the Polish Prime Minister said. …
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US troops will be stationed in Poland in January
The Commanding General the United States Army in Europe, Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, announced that 4,000 U.S. soldiers will be relocated to Poland as part of the NATO Atlantic Resolve mission in January 2017. During his visit to the Bundeswehr Academy in Osterholz-Scharmbeck (Lower Saxony), General Hodges said that the port of Bremerhaven in northern Germany is going to serve as a crossing base.
At the NATO summit in Warsaw in July 2016, it was decided to place four of the Alliance’s …
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Polish Foreign Minister: Russia violates international norms more than USSR did
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Witold Waszczykowski, stated that Warsaw was very wrong when it thought that Russia would conduct its policy in line with international norms, as stated in a report, published on the website of the Polish Foreign Ministry.
Witold Waszczykowski assured that Poland’s critical attitude towards Russia derives not only from their complicated history but also from a sober assessment of the revisionist tendencies of the Russian Federation.
“In the 1990s, …
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Polish border guards announced cases of Russian drones across Poland's borders
The Polish Border Guard reported four cases of Russian drones illegally crossing the Polish border this year.
According to Rzeczpospolita, one incident occurred two weeks ago near the village of Banie Mazurskie near the border with the Kaliningrad region, the second one in September near Górowo Iławeckie, and two more in February near the city of Gołdap. The drones, which arrived from the Kaliningrad region, were flying at an altitude of 50-100 meters and penetrated about one kilometer into …