No EU funds for Czech incinerators

17 October 2011  | Recycling Portal

The Czech Republic plans to build three new incinerators with EU regional funds available for big waste management projects in the current EU budget (2007-2013). According to information provided to CEE Bankwatch Network by the Czech State Environmental Fund, a mechanical-biological waste treatment plant (MBT) would be three times cheaper per installed ton capacity to build than incinerators. This difference will eventually be passed on to the households in price for waste management.

Incinerators ‘should not get cohesion funds’

14 October 2011  | ENDS Europe

MEPs and member states must ban the use of EU cohesion funds for incinerator projects when they legislate on the European Commission’s package of proposals to overhaul cohesion policy, according to green group CEE Bankwatch.

Schweizer Geld für dubiose Kohlekraftwerke

8 October 2011  | 20 minuten online

Die Bedenken gegenüber der Stromproduktion aus Kohle wachsen. Doch die Schweiz beteiligt sich weiter finanziell an Kraftwerken – auch an solchen, die negative Schlagzeilen machen.

Belgrade Court Orders Investigation into Kolubara Case

6 October 2011  | Balkan Insight

Belgrade’s Special Court has ordered an investigation into the former director of Serbia’s strip mining complex and 16 others on suspicion that they incurred financial damages to the company worth over €10 million.

Serbia: cleaning up like the neighbours

4 October 2011  | Financial Times

The arrest of a former mining boss on the Macedonia-Greece border might seem far from the corridors of Brussels, but the desire for EU membership takes many forms.

Conference highlights green corridors’ benefits

26 September 2011  | ENDS Europe

Green corridors have an important role to play in delivering new transport policy goals in the European Commission’s March white paper, the Polish EU presidency said at a conference held in Szczecin, Poland, last week.