As the EU mulls ending imports of Russian coal, the call for more renewables in the bloc’s energy mix grows louder. When Lithuania on April 2 announced that it had halted all imports of Russian gas, the country’s president, Gitanas Nausėda...
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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...
Plans to develop a lithium mine in western Serbia have provoked angry demonstrations amid increasing political tensions over pollution in the country. Thousands of Serbs...
Coal is increasingly redundant in Romania’s energy mix, generating less than a quarter of its electricity. In its latest National Resilience and Recovery Plan, the...
The Czech government is in danger of looking out of touch among its European Union counterparts, as its coal commission is homing in on a post-2030 phase out of lignite...
Poland’s National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management (NFEP&WM), in cooperation with the European Commission and the World Bank, has launched an...
Poland’s Łódzkie region could become Europe’s second largest beneficiary of funds from the European Union’s Just Transition Mechanism for the...
The takeover by PKN Orlen, an oil refiner and retailer, of fellow Polish energy giant PGNiG is not merely the merger of two of Poland’s largest companies, it is a...
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...
Poland appears to have finally committed to removing coal from its energy mix, although not in the immediate future, and details of how the country will go about phasing...
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...
Bulgaria, Czechia, Poland and Romania can be important drivers of Europe’s green recovery and climate efforts through clean energy investment, a new report has revealed...
