Measures to protect water supplies – included in the deal – are insufficient and will not work, say locals. The Czech government has angered local people by...
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Daily fines of more than half a million euros are unlikely to convince Poland to close a coal mine at Turów, close the Czech and German borders, say environmental groups...
North Macedonia is currently the only country in the Western Balkans to have confirmed that it will exit coal. A new report by the Centre for Research on Energy and...
Central Europe Poland’s Łódź region has announced that the European Union’s most polluting coal plant, Bełchatów, will close by 2036 and its mines by 2038. The news is...
Polish authorities claim that they are prepared to close Europe’s most polluting power plant by the end of 2036. Not soon enough, say environmental campaigners. Poland’s...
An agreement between the Polish government and the country’s coal miners is “very unlikely” to get the green light in Brussels, says the environmental...
Poland’s Łódzkie region could become Europe’s second largest beneficiary of funds from the European Union’s Just Transition Mechanism for the...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
Of all the new outbreaks of Covid-19 in emerging Europe in recent weeks, few have been more serious than those which erupted in the coal mines in Poland, bringing more...
Greenpeace Poland has filed a lawsuit against PGE GiEK, a subsidiary of state-owned utility PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna demanding that PGE GiEK stop any further fossil...