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Analyses |
| Konrad Mazur
The German anti-trust office on 26 October granted Gazprom permission to purchase the German company Envacom. The Russian giant has been making efforts for several months to buy this firm, which is operating in the sectors of renewable…
OSW Commentary |
| Konrad Mazur
It is possible that while establishing the details of cooperation between the Russian and German companies, Russia will try to put pressure on Germany to give up competing projects such as Nabucco. However, a well-diversified German energy…
Analyses |
| Konrad Mazur
The German-Australian consortium BBM Operta and Macmahon signed a deal for extracting 15 million tonnes of coal annually, worth US$ 2 billion from the Tavan Tolgoi mine. Siemens concluded an agreement for the construction of gas turbines…
Analyses |
| Konrad Popławski
On 12 October the European Commission (EC) presented a draft vision of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for 2014-2020. The EC's draft also included a proposal to slightly increase funding for farmers from the EU new member states with…
Analyses |
| Konrad Popławski
Germany is determined to rescue the euro on condition that profound changes are going to be conducted. Germany is working to introduce mechanisms for sanctions on excessive borrowing, namely the creation of a European Stabilisation…
Analyses |
| Konrad Mazur
On 30 September, the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) presented its data on German power plants and the progress in the construction of new blocks by 2014. According to these data, 676 blocks with a total output of 112 GW are…
Analyses |
| Konrad Mazur
Under the rejected CCS law, which was meant to implement the EU directive regarding the introduction of clean carbon technologies, small and medium-sized pilot storing facilities with a capacity of up to 3 million tonnes per year would be…
Analyses |
| Justyna Gotkowska
On 15 September, Germany’s minister of defence, Thomas de Maizière, visited Moscow. Among those he met was his Russian counterpart, Anatoly Serdyukov. One of the issues they discussed were the military reforms currently being conducted in…
Analyses |
| Artur Ciechanowicz
On 16 September at the Investment Forum in Sochi, Russia's Gazprom, Italy's ENI, France's EdF and Germany's Wintershall (a daughter company of BASF) concluded an agreement to found a company for South Stream Transport (SST), the future…
Analyses |
| Marta Zawilska-Florczuk
The court emphasised that the regulations included in the German laws accompanying the act on the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon provide a sufficient guarantee for the Bundestag’s decision-making autonomy. At the same time, it…