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In Bulgaria, marking an air pollution tragedy with another one in the making

December 13, 2021

Bankwatch member group Za Zemiata illuminates Sofia’s thermal power plant to protest plans for the construction of a waste incineration facility that would poison the capital.


Calls for climate action grow louder throughout central eastern Europe

October 21, 2019

In late September, as part of the Global Climate Strike, an estimated 7.6 million people took to the streets to demand climate action. In central and eastern Europe, this mobilization likely signals important momentum, not least about the prospects of an energy transitions in each of the countries.


Meštani Rakite: Nećemo genocid nad prirodom

December 21, 2018

Meštani Rakite: Nećemo genocid nad prirodomRetko kada je jedan, na izgled, lokalni problem uzdignut na nacionalni nivo, kao što je to slučaj sa izgradnjom mini- hidroelektrana u najvećem parku prirode Stara planina. Zasluga za to je u aktivizmu lokalno


Threatening wilderness, dams fuel protests in the Balkans

June 4, 2018

KRUSCICA, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – For almost a year, a clutch of Bosnian women has kept watch over a wooden bridge to disrupt the march of hydropower – part of a Balkan-wide protest against the damming of Europe’s wild riv


New wave of protests against the Nenskra dam

April 30, 2018

On April 21, around 200 people went on a protest in Chuberi to once again oppose the construction of the Nenskra dam and to demand their indigenous status that grants a higher level of safeguards.


MHP: ‘Business as usual’ while communities suffer

September 29, 2017

The massive loans by public banks for Ukraine’s monopolist poultry producer MHP have not brought the company’s performance and culture in line with the relevant EU and EBRD standards. Rural communities say that if it continues with ‘business as usual’, they face more violence and suppression.


Bulgaria’s Struma motorway becomes test case for European Commission’s commitment to EU nature protection law

September 14, 2017

With crude manipulations, the Bulgarian government is trying to push through a contended motorway route that would damage the country’s biodiversity hotspot in breach of EU law and international conventions. It expects that the European Commission will sit, watch and pay for it.


Way off track in Riga – EU funds at risk for controversial tram project

July 21, 2017

Public tensions have been rising over a proposed EUR 100 million tram line in the capital Riga that is proposed for EU funding.


Powerline to nowhere: Georgian villages take stand against badly routed transmission lines

June 13, 2017

Mountain villages in the country’s northeast protest for changes to the routing of high voltage lines in a series of local protests.


Italian authorities overrun communities in a bid to enable Europe’s dash for gas

May 8, 2017

In a last minute attempt to force facts on the ground, the Italian authorities have enabled the removal of a group of olive trees to make room for a future construction site of the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), despite an earlier agreement between the company and local institutions. Nevertheless, the company has not been able to clear the site by the official deadline and the residents have vowed to step up their protest against the largest energy project the EU is currently pursuing.


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