The German energy oligopole (RWE, Eon, Ruhrgas) lost a lawsuit about their long time supply treaties with German municipal utility service companies. Those treaties where a charter to fix prices for the providerside without any control. Now the energy suppliers (Eon, RWE and Ruhrgas) have to proof their outstanding bills through a reproducible calculation. Therefore they need higher gas prices...
This is to me a probable reason why Gasprom, who has a close cross-shareholding with its German partners is interested to push prices.
Personally I am for free trade and against any state-run business. But the German energymarket (electicity and gas) is runned by crooks who own a oligopole/monopole. They have for sure price-fixing agreements among each other and suck out all their customers. They can do it because they had exclusice conditions with German gouvernments for a long time. On this base they could build up their quasi monopole. Therefore it would be the best to dispossess them and to open this market.
Or pissed off with the Polish election results, so they want to show the new Polish government where Poland's place in the line is.==
I think opposite:). Russian athorities had some agreement with Kwasnevskii about prices. Probably they didn't rise it until election passes or so. Now polish election gone then it is time to rise prices for gas.
Gazprom wants more polish money. What is wrong with it?Negociations is negociations.
Gazprom wants more money but Poles want to pay less. Is it geopolitics lizol? If yes then you encounter with geopolitics each day when go shopping.