February 5, 2018 | Read more The European Investment Bank is set to decide on the billion dollar Nenskra dam project during its board meeting today.
January 31, 2018 | Read more Hundreds of people fed up of breathing polluted air have joined a protest in Pristina, Kosovo earlier today.
January 30, 2018 | Read more The controversial Southern Gas Corridor, the EU’s flagship energy project, could be as emissions-intensive as coal power or even more, a new study reveals.
January 23, 2018 | Read more A pressing challenge in post-Soviet cities and towns is the conversion of modernist planning into a contemporary and sustainable built environment.
January 17, 2018 | Read more Tajikistan has long suffered from serious energy shortages, but is a new coal power plant really the answer?
January 16, 2018 | Read more Gacko, Bosnia-Herzegovina, is home to a coal power plant and an open cast mine and it has a serious smog problem. But you wouldn’t know it from official measurements because the local air quality rules are uniquely lax, and there are no publicly available, official measurements.
January 16, 2018 | Read more Rosa Vroom, author of the multimedia hub ‘Sventi is my homeland’, reflects on what makes the region and its people so special
January 10, 2018 | Read more Going through the mill A Bankwatch story by “Mills don’t grind if you give them no water” goes the old proverb that Xhevahir Shkurti, an owner of a water mill in the village of Rapuni in central Albania could not agree more with.
January 4, 2018 | Read more Another nail is in the coffin of the controversial Pljevlja II coal power plant in Montenegro with the main contractor exiting the project.
December 22, 2017 | Read more With its plans to build a new waste incinerator in Budapest with EU funding support, Hungary’s government not only ignores the opportunity to make it’s cities cleaner and healthier, but also piles up costs its citizens will have to pay in the future.
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