PM hails EU Council conclusions on energy policy as success for Poland – The First News

Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland’s prime minister, said on Friday that a whole raft of proposals related to energy policy had been adopted as conclusions of an EU Council summit in Brussels, which he described as Poland’s success.

Morawiecki said the Council conclusions related to energy policy covered prices, reducing the negative impact on national markets, the economy, and unemployment.

Speaking before the summit’s second day on Friday, Morawiecki said that “the main problem in the whole of Europe today is very high prices of energy generated from natural gas, but also from other sources.”

“These energy prices translate into major economic problems,” he added.

“We ended with conclusions good for Poland – such as we had expected, such as I had spoken of,” Morawiecki said. “It is primarily the setting of a maximum gas price, implemented through the so-called price corridor.”

He added that the details still needed to be worked out in the coming weeks by the bloc’s energy ministers.

“We also discussed a voluntary purchasing mechanism,” he said. “Here too our position was reflected, our proposal was taken into account.”

Morawiecki said the talks had centred on Russia’s influence on energy prices and on the economic situation.

“I pointed out the risk appearing on financial markets, the risk of various types of speculation,” he said, adding that for several months Poland had talked about building mechanisms to prevent speculation, which was also reflected in the Council conclusions.

“All those issues connected with energy policy, with prices, with reducing the negative effects on national markets, on the economy, on unemployment – they were all adopted in the conclusions and that is a big success for Poland,” Morawiecki said.