Polish Treasury Minister Loses Post on Gazprom Pipeline Row
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk dismissed Treasury Minister Mikolaj Budzanowski for failing to inform him about a deal with OAO Gazprom over the Russian natural gas producer’s pipeline expansion plans.
Gazprom and Poland’s Europol Gaz SA on April 4 signed a memorandum to study a proposed 15 billion cubic-meter pipeline called Yamal-Europe 2 from Russia via Poland to Slovakia, bypassing Ukraine. Tusk and Budzanowski weren’t aware of the deal, even though the plan was known to state-controlled gas distributor Polskie Gornictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo SA, the prime minister said at a news conference in Warsaw today.