Polish President Andrzej Duda has talked to the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, about the recent setback to Poland's strategic gas pipeline that the Danish environmental agency has stalled.
Poland's flagship energy security project, the Baltic Pipe, which runs from Norway’s gas deposits and across Denmark and the Baltic seabed, is not threatened in the long run by a Danish decision to halt construction, the prime minister has said.
The European Commission has said it is ready to step in and help solve a problem threatening the completion of a pipeline that will bring Norwegian gas to Poland, a Commission spokesman told PAP on Wednesday.
Marcin Przydacz, a deputy foreign minister hopes that the Danish government will reconsider a suspended environmental permit for a section of a top priority gas pipeline running from Norway to Poland.
Poland's prime minister, on Tuesday, wrote a letter to his Danish counterpart, Mette Frederiksen, and offered to buy surplus Johnson & Johnson vaccines against Covid-19 from Denmark, the polsatnews.pl website wrote.
The underwater stretch of the Baltic Pipe gasline to link Norway's gasbeds with Denmark and Poland could be completed this year, weather permitting, a government official said on Thursday.
The Czech Republic added Poland to its list of countries with the 'highest epidemic risk' alongside Cyprus, Denmark and Norway.
The ambassadors of the US, Great Britain, Germany, France and Denmark in Poland extended their wishes to the Poles on the occasion of Independence Day highlighting friendship and cooperation between their countries and Poland.
The company announced it will be leaving Poland after 25 years to concentrate on other markets in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.
Announcing the start of construction work, President Duda said the project would be “very good news for Poland, and not just for the near future, but I deeply believe that for the coming decades."
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