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Investors split over Romanian Black Sea projects in “illiberal” climate
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International oil and gas companies are divided over whether to push ahead with plans to develop offshore fields in the Romanian segment of the Black Sea after the government passed tighter regulations at the end of last year.
Rules approved in Bucharest include the manda- tory sale of 50% of the output on the local market
Poland’s new “Spring” party hopes to end two-party stalemate
Wojciech Kosc in Warsaw
Robert Biedron, the openly gay Polish politician that rose to nationwide prominence by sensa- tionally becoming mayor of the seaside town of Slupsk a few years ago, has decided to challenge the political status quo in Poland by forming
a new liberal-left party Wiosna (Spring).
Biedron held the inaugural convention of the new
at a regulated price. Moreover, the so-called “tax on greed” sets a cap on the price gas companies charge households, and a 3% turnover tax for energy and telecoms companies.
Austrian group OMV and Romania’s largest oil and
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party in Warsaw on February 3 to the immense interest of all media. The main message Biedron delivered to a crowd of an estimated 6,000 in Warsaw’s Torwar sports hall and – possibly – hundreds of thousands in front of TV screens and on social media was his intention to break Po-
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