VILNIUS -- Despite assurances from Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus earlier this month that a Polish-Lithuanian agreement on construction of a new "power bridge" linking the two countries' energy grids would be signed "within days," there seems to have been minimal progress made.
The two sides even met last weekend while Poland was staging a general election, yet Lithuania's Lietuvos Eenergija and Poland's Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne again failed to sign an agreement.
"The Polish energy company argued it cannot sign the agreement if it is not provided with guarantees that Poland will control 1,000 - 1,200 megawatts [about one third] of electricity to be generated by a new nuclear power plant," Lietuvos Energia's spokesperson Aurelia Trakseliene told Russian news agency, Interfax, after one of the weekend sessions.
