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The threat to the EU’s LIFE programme in the next budget

27 June, 2025

This article was published as an opinion piece in EUobserver on 26 June 2025.  The EU’s new priorities are at a major crossroads. The once cutting-edge European Green Deal is now ditched in favour of defence, security and competitiveness. These discuss

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Electrification of Riga’s heat supply brings balance to national grid

24 June, 2025

Riga’s main heat supplier, RĪGAS SILTUMS, is taking steps to transform the city’s heat supply. Having recently implemented a major electrification project, the company is now exploring options to introduce a pioneering heat storage solution for the Latvian capital.

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Montenegro’s stop-start spatial plan set to greenlight harmful hydro projects

24 June, 2025

Montenegro is touted as the lead EU accession candidate these days, but it’s unfortunately far from ready. The country’s hotly debated new national spatial plan is a case in point, plagued by delays, legal breaches, opacity and all-round low quality.

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Western Balkan governments still complicit in deadly coal pollution – new report

17 June, 2025

In 2024, Western Balkan governments’ chronic law enforcement failures allowed sulphur dioxide (SO2) pollution from the region’s antiquated coal power plants to exceed legal limits by six times, according to the seventh edition of Bankwatch’s Comply or Close report, published today (1). Dust and nitrogen oxides (NOx) pollution from coal plants also continued to exceed legal limits.

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Landmark deal ends 28-year Bulgaria motorway dispute with agreement to protect Kresna Gorge

16 June, 2025

28 years since the Struma motorway project in Bulgaria started, the Save Kresna Gorge coalition, Road Infrastructure Agency and Ministry of Environment and Water have reached a landmark agreement to implement the final section of the motorway outside the Kresna Gorge.

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