Gazprom company logo MOSCOW, 15 Jan. «Gazprom» went to court demanding to increase the price of gas for Poland. The relevant information was disseminated by the Polish gas monopoly PGNiG. «On January 14, 2022, PGNiG received a lawsuit from a representative of Gazprom PJSC and Gazprom Export LLC to the Stockholm Arbitration Court regarding the requirement to change the price conditions for gas supplied under the Yamal contract,» the statement says. «Gazprom» expects that the contract price will be increased retroactively — as part of its applications for review dated December 8, 2017 and November 9, 2020, PGNiG said. Warsaw appealed to the European Commission with a demand to launch an antimonopoly investigation against Gazprom. According to the Polish side, the Russian company allegedly became the culprit of high gas prices in Europe. import package,» the minister said.
Poland acknowledged the losses from the «capricious» struggle with Russian gas»Brussels shares responsibility»Earlier, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on TVN24 that the EU bears part of the responsibility for rising gas and electricity prices in the region.»Russia today bears responsibility , and Brussels shares responsibility for very high energy prices, for very high gas prices,» he said. The politician again accused Moscow of «gas blackmail» with the help of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and demanded that Brussels respond to this. 
Polish PGNiG urged Gazprom to increase gas supplies to EuropeGas situationThe European gas market has been fluctuating since the end of summer. Back in early August, futures traded at $515 per thousand cubic meters, but by the end of September they had more than doubled, and on October 6 jumped to a historic high of $1,937. This was followed by some decline, but prices continue to stay at a high level. All this increases the cost of electricity for residents of the European Union. According to Vladimir Putin, the shortage of gas in the European market was the result of the economic policy of the European Commission. As Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak emphasized on Friday, January 14, neither Gazprom nor Russia as a whole are to blame in the energy crisis in Europe. He pointed out that the underground gas storages were empty due to the long winter. In addition, Novak noted that the economy began to recover, and liquefied natural gas from the United States and other countries, such as Qatar, «went to Asia.» >Poland said that Russia does not need Nord Stream 2 Nord Stream 2 stretches from the Russian coast across the Baltic Sea to Germany and consists of two strings with a total capacity of 55 billion cubic meters of gas per year. The laying took three years and ended on September 10. In Russia, they have repeatedly called not to politicize the Nord Stream 2 project, which is of purely commercial interest. The country's leadership reminded that the highway is beneficial to the European Union.
