Slovakia’s €3 billion fund to move from coal | Article | KHL

10 July 2019  | KHL

Government approves local community’s transition plan in line with EU’s 2050 carbon neutral goal Source: Slovakia’s €3 billion fund to move from coal | Article | KHL

Let the sunshine in, say civil society groups

10 July 2019  | Balkan Green News

Eight civil society organisations last week submitted proposals for a revamp of Serbia’s renewables support scheme to the Ministry of Energy and Mining. Source: Let the sunshine in, say civil society groups

Balkan Activists Plan Week of Protests Against Hydro-Power | Balkan Insight

4 July 2019  | Balkan Insight

Mladen Lakic Source: Balkan Activists Plan Week of Protests Against Hydro-Power | Balkan Insight

bne IntelliNews – TANAP pipeline comes online, a major piece in Europe’s energy puzzle

3 July 2019  | Intellinews

Completion of the TANAP pipeline brings completion of the Southern Gas Corridor that will diversify Europe’s gas supplies away from Russia closer to reality — at a time when Russia is building its own new pipeline infrastructure. Source: bne IntelliNew

Complaint submitted against North Macedonia over small hydropower

3 July 2019  | Balkan Green News

North Macedonia’s incentives system subjects solar photovoltaic (PV) producers and most wind producers, but not small hydropower plants, to auctions. Source: Complaint submitted against North Macedonia over small hydropower

EIB blames Ombudsman for not helping redact VW report

2 July 2019  | EU Observer

Volkswagen Group duped the European Investment Bank, from which it borrowed €400m, by not disclosing it was cheating on emissions tests. Requests by EUobserver to see the anti-fraud report however have been consistently rejected. Source: EIB blames Omb