20/09/2010 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission was optimistic on Monday 20 September that a shortage of natural gas in Poland in mid-October, resulting from the delay in concluding the gas agreement between Poland and Russia on increasing supplies of Russian gas and extending transit through Poland (see EUROPE 10210 and 10214), could be avoided. “The agreement can be done in a matter of hours,” Marlene Holzner, spokesman for Commissioner Günther Oettinger said, pointing out that...