Press release search results

Expert proposals for Energy Community improvements are a promising step forward

18 June, 2014

South and eastern European member countries of the Energy Community may soon have to be much more ambitious about environmental standards in the energy sector. This is because the Energy Community, the body that aims to create a common energy market between the EU and some of its neighbours, may be about to introduce more of the EU environmental acquis into its Treaty.

Read more

---

Big plans for a small country – Montenegro’s draft energy strategy

12 June, 2014

Montenegro’s new draft energy strategy needs cutting down to size if environmental and economic damage is to be avoided.

Read more

---

New mega gas pipelines redundant according to EU’s own projections

12 June, 2014

The EU’s plans for large new gas import pipelines and LNG terminals to Europe, outlined in the European Commission’s October 2013 list of priority energy projects as well as in the May blueprint for energy security to be discussed during tomorrow’s Energy Council, are not only counter to the EU’s long-term climate goals but also unjustified according to the EC’s own demand forecast.

Read more

---

Transition triumphs and traps – Assessing Poland’s recent economic journey, and where it goes next

4 June, 2014

During last month’s EBRD annual meeting in Warsaw, Bankwatch Mail convened a discussion about the state of the Polish economy between a financial journalist and a sociologist – both residents of the Polish capital – to hear their views on some of the pressing economic issues of the day, as well as the ongoing Polish ‘transition’ process. With the 25th anniversary of the end of communist rule in Poland a few months away now (today in fact marks a quarter of a century since the first Polish elections under communism), what have been the achievements and the lessons to be learned from the last two and half decades?

Read more

---

First court case against coal power plant construction in Serbia

2 June, 2014

Belgrade — NGO CEKOR submitted a formal complaint in front of the Serbian national administrative court against the government’s decision to approve an Environmental Impact Assessment study for the construction of a new unit at the Kostolac B coal power plant. The complaint, in which the NGO exposes failings in the EIA process, is the first of its kind to reach Serbian courts.

Read more

---