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.
December 21, 2017 | Read more A visit to six mountain rivers and nine small dams in Macedonia exposed similar problems with many of them.
December 20, 2017 | Read more Eight hydropower projects in Albania, Croatia and Macedonia financed with European public money have damaged biodiversity and are in urgent need of increased monitoring and restoration measures.
December 15, 2017 | Read more Plagued by a number of unsolved issues, the Chinese-backed Banovići lignite power plant in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been dealt a major blow.
December 12, 2017 | Read more Today, at a board meeting in Luxembourg the European Investment Bank has decided, for now, to postpone loaning 1.5 billion euros to the controversial Trans-Adriatic Pipeline.
December 11, 2017 | Read more Plans for 17 hydropower plants throughout Macedonia’s Mavrovo National Park must be immediately suspended, so the Standing Committee of the Bern Convention ruled at its annual meeting last week.
December 11, 2017 | Read more The village of Lupoaia in southwest Romania depends on the mining company for their drinking water. The company wants to expand the nearby mine, thus further increasing the local pollution.
December 11, 2017 | Read more Despite commitments to help address the climate crisis, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development awarded fossil fuel projects EUR 4.05 billion between 2010 and 2016 – more than double its support for renewable energy during the same period.
December 11, 2017 | Read more What’s going on with the Green Economy Transition at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development?
December 5, 2017 | Read more A train ride offers time for reflecting on how the EU budget can be put to use for the common good.
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