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WARSAW- Council is ready to debate about gas directive.

Today, we got an opportunity to take part at the council meeting and had the chance of witnessing the debate about the gas directive. Ministers talked about the internal gas market, which is an important element in the context of this directive.

Member States found it difficult to reach a compromise. National interests came up as a prior topic. The debate was very interesting and difficult. The most active ones that appeared were Germany, Italy and Poland. There were many interesting arguments. The Council discussed about distribution solutions.

In my opinion the gaseous fuels sector is facing legislative changes. EU regulations and pressure from the European Commission make it necessary to quickly adopt new regulations. The implementation of the gas directive is intended to create the conditions in the member states to facilitate the entry of new entities into the gas market, to stimulate the development of competition and investments in energy infrastructure.In my opinion we need a legislation to regulate energy issues but we must remeber about national interests.

Reporting by Bartek Mazurek

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THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION: DIGITAL GLOBALIZATION

The Digital Single Market strategy, which aims to generate smart, sustainable and inclusive growth in Europe, has been considered as the ultimate way of staying competitive at world level; obviously, the commissioner is one of those optimists who sees that strategy as a boon to the well-rounded development of the European Union together with the regulations regarding to trade.

“It is impossible to stay only within the European Union borders; because we would be isolated if we do so.”

That was how the representative from the EU commission explained the designing process of the article four, regarding to the question that was directed by the leader of the Identity and Democracy (ID) party in the parliament.

“Most of the third countries have already indicated their interests in coming to the European Union”, the representative from the EU commission added.
From what we have heard, some provisions are already set for the non-EU countries.

Although the majority of the representatives in the parliament leant towards the mentioned regulation, they did not stand back from keeping the pot boiling during the the faction opening statements. Representative of the EPP Poland took the floor in the first place to indicate their wish to submit and to improve the proposal by remarking the huge potential of the rural areas right before the leader of the Greens Sweden gave a start to the concerns about the data privicy along with the idea of more environmental friendly regulation.

"ARE WE REALLY SURE THAT THE U.S. IS OUR FRIEND?”

The main course has changed thanks to the deep concerns of the leader of the ID France.

She clearly expressed her sympathy to the Eastern Europe countries which are conciously ignored in exchange for the support of the United States of America.

Reporting by Hande Yetkin