National campaigner, Hungary
Email: alexa AT mtvsz.huTel.: +36703408997
Alexa joined Bankwatch in 2016 as an EU Funds national campaigner, following three years of project work in the extractive and energy sectors under the Bankwatch member group MTVSZ. Alexa holds an MSc in Ecology. Languages: Hungarian, English
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Despite months of preparatory negotiations between the Hungarian government and the European Commission, the Hungarian public has only two weeks in August to participate in the public consultation on the extensive 67-page draft REPowerEU chapter before it’s submitted to the European Commission by 31 August.
Hungary could escape the trap of fossil energy dependence with focused plans on energy transition and enhanced support for households.
The quickly prepared Hungarian energy emergency action plan, which comes into effect today on 1 August, is supposed to increase national energy supply security through seven measures. But as our assessment and those of other experts show, even if the plan runs only temporarily and in the short term, the consequences will be felt by Hungarian citizens in the longer term.
Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Poland and Slovakia all plan to expand the use of waste incineration to generate energy (mostly heat) as part of their National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs). These plans will lead to much higher greenhouse gas emissions (
Web-version of the briefing Our analysis shows that most countries in central and eastern Europe are not committed to an ambitious energy transformation and instead stay as close as possible to business as usual scenarios. Moreover, the development of
