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Rights, democracy, development

‘Stop Nenskra’ campaign asks international banks not to finance Nenskra HPP in Georgia | MENAFN.COM

July 12, 2019

(MENAFN – Trend News Agency) Baku, Azerbaijan, July 12By Tamilla Mammadova – Trend:Representatives from the ‘Stop Nenskra’ campaign s Source: ‘Stop Nenskra’ campaign asks international banks not to finance Nenskra HPP in Georgia | MENAFN.COM

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

July 10, 2019

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

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Let the sunshine in, say civil society groups

July 10, 2019

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

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

July 4, 2019

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

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

July 3, 2019

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

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EIB blames Ombudsman for not helping redact VW report

July 2, 2019

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

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Report warns of major air pollution in Bosnian city of Tuzla – The Washington Post

June 25, 2019

Environmental groups have called for urgent measures to combat air pollution in the central Bosnian city of Tuzla, saying dust concentration far exceeds legal limits and causes premature deaths Source: Report warns of major air pollution in Bosnian cit

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Чернобыль и Киев глазами туриста – о хорошем, плохом и неприглядном – новости 2000.ua

June 24, 2019

Чернобыль и Киев глазами туриста – о хорошем, плохом и неприглядном Source: Чернобыль и Киев глазами туриста – о хорошем, плохом и неприглядном – новости 2000.ua

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Racing against the clock: Kenyan villagers under imminent threat of eviction by project under EU’s bank’s appraisal

June 19, 2019

Today’s European Development Days forum in Brussels with its aspirational motto ‘building a world which leaves no one behind’ is an ironic backdrop to what is happening in the remote parts of Kenya, where a whole community is facing a threat of forced eviction by a project under appraisal of the EU’s own house bank. About a hundred people were demanded to abandon their homes by tomorrow – 20 June.

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A treasured World Heritage Site in Bulgaria is under threat from a trans-European road network – Equal Times

June 19, 2019

From Valentin Stoichkov’s terrace, the views over the Pirin Mountains are breathtaking. The deputy mayor of the small town of Kresna, in south-western Bulgaria, has built an extension to his family’s modest dacha (summer home) in the foothills of this

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