I can reveal very interesting information that our proposals to change the energy price formation mechanism fell on fertile ground – said Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Copenhagen, who participated in the summit on the energy security of the Baltic Sea countries.
– I have just spoken to the Prime Ministers of Denmark, Finland, and Estonia. All three agree that it is necessary to bring about such a change, as a result of which we will be sure that the mechanism of price formation in the EU, and thus also in Poland, will not be dependent on Russian gas – said Morawiecki. As he pointed out during the meeting, the leaders talked about investments in wind farms.
“But this was only one reason to meet in the format of the Baltic Sea states,” the Prime Minister of Poland said. “We can see perfectly well what Putin is doing with the Black Sea. We do not want the Baltic Sea, like the Black Sea today, to become a threatened sea – emphasized Morawiecki. He reminded that until recently, “the symbol of the energy system of the Baltic Sea were two northern gas pipelines – one made Nord Stream 1, and the other, which was to be opened this year.”
“Unfortunately, the construction of these gas pipelines became the source of problems, it was the reason why Putin could afford to attack Ukraine because previously most of the gas system went through Ukraine,” the Prime Minister said. “Today we can see that the countries that previously focused on cooperation with Russia are aware of what mistake was made,” said the head of the Polish government.
In his opinion, “today we are a guarantor of energy security and, including gas security, through the interconnector system, through the Baltic gas pipeline and thanks to the expansion of our gas terminals in Świnoujście, as well as the construction of a new one that we intend to open in the Gulf of Gdańsk.” – It is good that our thinking about extraordinary actions hits fertile ground here – emphasized the Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister said that he also made an effort to persuade Ursula von der Leyen and the heads of the Baltic Sea republics to alter the ETS (European Emissions Trading System). – Mateusz Morawiecki added that “it has not yet been fully embraced, and it has not been embraced at all by the Chairwoman of the European Commission, but also recalled that “at the beginning, as everyone remembers perfectly, no one agreed that Ukraine should enter the fast track of the EU accession process, and then it was possible to be done it in June,”.
“We can see that what was impossible yesterday became possible in a short time,” the head of government stressed. The Prime Minister stated that “today’s summit was an important step towards lower prices, greater security and an end to the war in Ukraine.”
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