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Polish PM says stable energy supply is key challenge

09.12.2022 22:30
The Polish prime minister has said that in the future countries will face the crucial challenge of having to secure a stable supply of energy and a safe supply of food. 
Mateusz Morawiecki.
Mateusz Morawiecki.PAP/Albert Zawada

Mateusz Morawiecki made the statement in a video message to the Polish-French Economic Forum on Friday, Polish state news agency PAP reported.

He told policymakers, officials and business leaders gathered at Wawel Castle in Poland’s southern city of Kraków: “I have no doubt that in the coming years, digital and ecological transition will be the main drivers of progress.”

He added: “This is the field on which the match for the West’s economic future will be played and its result will determine the quality of life for our children and grandchildren.” 

Stable supply of energy, safe supply of food

Morawiecki went on to say: “As the war in eastern Europe demonstrates, securing a stable supply of energy, and a safe supply of food, is one of the key challenges facing us.”

He added that “while digital and ecological innovations in technology provide the fuel for economic growth, cooperation between countries is the engine.” 

Polish-French economic ties

Morawiecki told the gathering that “Polish-French economic cooperation has a long tradition” and French companies “played an important part in Poland’s transition" to a market economy in the early 1990s.

He added that Polish-French trade "is gathering pace" and both countries are among each other’s major economic partners.

 “Our companies are investing and competing on the European single market,” Morawiecki said. 

He added: “We’ll truly succeed only if everyone wins, because our shared future is at stake.”

“Together we can achieve more than separately,” he declared in his video message to the Kraków conference.

The Polish-French Economic Forum was expected to focus on bilateral cooperation in the renewables, hydrogen and nuclear energy sectors, as well as digital transition and innovation in the economy, officials said.

Guests included Poland’s Development and Technology Minister Waldemar Buda, France’s Foreign Trade Minister Olivier Becht and the CEO of the French employers’ organisation, Mouvement des entreprises de France (MEDEF), Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, the PAP news agency reported.

(pm/gs)

Source: PAP, wpolityce.pl