Poland chums up with Russia

Poland and Russia must revise their gas supply contract in order to avoid violating EU monopoly laws. This was the upshot of initial talks between Polish Minister for Economic Affairs Waldemar Pawlak and EU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger on Monday. The Polish government is behaving inconsistently, the daily Polska concludes: "It is paradoxical that as recently as 2009 Polish politicians were trying to win the Union over as an ally for talks with Russia. The harsh conditions dictated by [Russian energy giant] Gazprom apparently could only be eased with the help of the EU. But now our Polish ministers travel to Brussels to convince the EU that the Russians aren't doing us an injustice, and that the whole deal is actually compatible with EU law. The European Commission has now decided it doesn't like what Warsaw didn't like some time ago."

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