Historically Poles and Czechs have been frequent rivals — they even fought a nasty little border war a century ago — but their dependence on Russian gas and the EU’s pressure to more tightly integrate the continent’s gas markets are pushing the two closer together.
The border town of Cieszyn in Poland and Český Těšín in the Czech Republic will eventually see a pipeline interconnector, joining two largely separate gas networks, which until now have had only a very small link.
The issue is enormously important in Poland, which has long tried to cut its energy reliance on its historical nemesis Russia, …read more
Source: European Voice
