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[Campaign update] Protestors take to Kyiv to demand action from agribusiness giant encroaching on their lands

24 February, 2017

On 22 February, more than 70 activists and residents from the Chyhyryn region south of Kyiv protested outside the headquarters of Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP), the Ukrainian agribusiness conglomerate owned by one of the country’s richest billionaires.

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Question marks abound over EU-Azerbaijan gas tango

23 February, 2017

Ministers, ambassadors and envoys from at least 15 countries, including Maroš Šefčovič, the European Commission’s Vice President for the Energy Union, are gathered today in the Azerbaijani capital to discuss the progress on the Southern Gas Corridor, t

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Under heavy skies: dire results from first independent pollution monitoring in Montenegro

23 February, 2017

It was ten in the evening on 17 December when my colleague and I arrived in Pljevlja, Montenegro. Although we could feel the smell of burnt coal already while driving there, the minute we set foot out of the car, the air was stifling. “This place remin

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Lack of transparency hindering Czech export agency

15 February, 2017

Although not an institution that typically receives much fanfare, the export credit agency (ECA) in the Czech Republic has a poor track record worthy of more scrutiny. Its latest failure relates to a contract for the construction of a power plant in Tu

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Ukraine’s addiction to nuclear energy poses a decades-long threat to Europe

2 February, 2017

Despite an urgent need to rebuild and reshape its highly inefficient and outdated energy sector, Ukraine has recently presented a draft of its new energy strategy that looks more like of the same. While the strategy makes mention of modern renewable en

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