Energy Minister Miłosz Motyka met Slovak Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Denisa Saková on Monday, as Poland pushes a strategy of diversifying gas deliveries, including LNG shipments, to strengthen the region's energy security.
“Poland has a chance to become, and we are doing everything towards this, a northern gateway for LNG, including from the United States, for our whole region,” Motyka told reporters.
He said the approach could include supplies to Ukraine, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
Motyka argued that existing infrastructure needs to be used more effectively, including the gas interconnector between Poland and Slovakia, which has been in place since 2022.
He said the connection could form part of a broader corridor delivering gas south and east, as European countries try to reduce purchases from Russia.
“What is happening on the European market today shows that diversifying supplies is necessary if we are to end imports of gas from Russia,” Motyka said.
He described the Poland-to-Slovakia route as cost-effective and supportive of energy security.
He said members of the Polish delegation included representatives of companies involved in gas and energy transmission and distribution, signaling that the talks were meant to combine political backing with practical planning.
Deputy Energy Minister Wojciech Wrochna said Poland wants to support closer regional cooperation at the political level.
“We believe we can build a model system of regional cooperation in Central Europe,” he said, describing it as useful both bilaterally and across the wider region.
Poland’s gas transmission operator Gaz-System reported record volumes in 2025 that officials say support Warsaw’s argument that it can play a larger transit role.
The company said 22.8 billion cubic meters of gas flowed through Poland’s transmission system last year, the highest figure on record.
Exports also hit a new high of 2 billion cubic meters, with Ukraine receiving 99 percent of that total.
Gaz-System also said that the modernization of the Hermanowice metering station near the Ukrainian border, finished in December, allows for greater use of transmission capacity depending on "technical and commercial conditions."
The company also listed newly completed pipelines which, it said, were important to supports a shift away from coal in parts of Poland, and to improve access to gas fuel.
Polish and Slovak officials also discussed nuclear energy cooperation, an area where Slovakia already has operating plants at Jaslovské Bohunice and Mochovce that supply a large share of the country’s electricity, the PAP news agency reported.
Slovakia is preparing to sign a nuclear energy cooperation agreement with the United States in Washington on Friday, a step expected to support talks with US energy firm Westinghouse on building a new unit at Jaslovské Bohunice.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Sunday that he would be open to working with Russia in nuclear energy, but that European Union sanctions prevent it.
Motyka declined to comment on Fico’s remarks, saying Slovakia’s internal matters are for Slovaks to decide.
Wrochna said Poland and Slovakia work with other EU countries in a nuclear cooperation grouping, and that both sides can benefit from sharing experience.
He said Slovakia’s operational know-how, combined with Poland’s longer-running work with specific international partners, could help both countries negotiate and cooperate more effectively.
(rt/gs)
Source: IAR, PAP