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WARSAW- Today in the parliament, the statements about the gas directive is presented. The parliament hosted an interesting debate where the Member States national interests' are dominated. The EPP supported this directive while the S&D underlined the cooperation regarding to the area of gas and pipelines while stating that Russia's monopoly on gas transport to the EU.

Greens from Sweden supported this directive by saying that the cooperations with the companies are significant and the nvironmental protection is important. They believe that an ecological disaster is possible.

The ECR believes that additional taxation is needed, solidarity is paramount and this directive denies it meaning that they do not support the directive.

According to ID, cooperating with Russia, security and dialogue makes sense.

According to RE, the North Stream 2 is a problematic issue. They expressed their fear of being dependent on one supplier only.

From the perspective of GUE/NGL, the liberalization of the gas market is a natural process and hasn't been solved for years. Gas is a stable source of energy and ordinary people need to be protected from politics.

In my opinion, the debate is interesting and complicated. An agreement can be a difficult point to reach. The issue of cooperation with Russia worths to be thought on. Honestly, we should talk about prices but also about gas exporters.

Reporting by Bartek Mazurek