2022-09-27
Gas-through-the-Baltic: the hope for energy diversification is still warm
Poland has launched the Baltic Pipe, the infrastructure which will deliver 6.5 billion cubic meters of Norwegian gas in 2023.
Tag: Russia
2022-06-04
Rail Baltica is the hope for rail carriages and Riga’s logistics
As the price of almost all goods and services continued to increase, the scenario in Latvia is worsened by the transport sector.
2022-04-23
Energy pragmatism is possible, all it despises is rhetoric
Lithuania’s Independence, a so-called Floating Storage Regasification Unit, offers a case study for those looking to pivot away from Russian gas.
2022-04-16
Appreciation is not enough in the fight against inflation
The Bank of Poland takes its main rate to 4.5%, projecting 6.5% this year and 7.5% in 2023. Meanwhile, companies are passing higher costs on to CPI.
2022-04-09
Is the Green Dream postponed by Ukraine’s wake-up call?
As coal has the biggest potential to lower gas demand, Poland wants to use it to produce electricity after 2049 to bolster its energy security.
2022-04-02
Fighting fire with fire… it’s consumers who get burnt
The conflict in Ukraine has created another excuse to blame inflation on oil and natural gas, rather than the increase in the money supply.
2022-03-12
War heats inflation on trade deficit and real growth
In Lithuania, the inflation rate reached around 11% in early 2022, and heating bills are expected to increase by 50% to 60%.
2022-02-26
Beware of Kaliningrad, the spearhead of the attacker in the Baltic
NATO’s Achilles heel in the Russia-Ukraine war. Beware of Kaliningrad, Russia outside Russia, a crossing point between Europe and the three Baltic countries.
2021-07-24
Lithuania: a new migrant emergency at the door?
According to the government in Vilnius, Belarus is “arming” illegal immigration from Iraq and Syria to be sent across the border to Lithuania.