Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has reaffirmed his country’s commitment to the Balkan Stream natural gas pipeline project, despite delays in construction. Mr Borissov said on June 1 that he wants the pipeline – an extension of...
Tag - Environment & Energy
Slovenia’s Elektro Maribor has received a loan of 31 million euros from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to increase the quality and reliability of the electricity...
Moldova’s capital Chișinău took a step forwards last week when the city’s council approved a new development strategy based on green, sustainable principles...
While the whole world was shocked by negative West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil prices due to the shortage of demand during the Covid-19 lockdown, the gas market...
Poland appears to have built its last coal-fired power plant. Late on May 19, two state-run Polish utility companies, Enea and Energa, said that they were ending their...
The home of a nature conservationist on the Montenegro side of Lake Skadar was torched last week, possibly by poachers, who have previously attacked and intimidated...
I last took a flight, a two-legged trip from Tallinn to Bucharest (via Warsaw), on March 13. Friday the 13th, for what it’s worth, two months ago. It was uneventful...
In a time of pandemic, death and bad news, finally we have something about which we can rejoice: Bulgaria’s Pirin National Park has been saved. A new management...
Since December 2019, when US sanctions were imposed on companies involved in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, the finalisation of the project has been...
Designed to link the gas fields on the Norwegian shelf in the North Sea to Poland via Denmark, construction of the Baltic Pipe gas conductor is expected to begin this...
A banking crisis in Azerbaijan deepened this week when four of the country’s largest banks – Atabank, AGBank, NBCBank, and Amrah Bank – were taken into...
While crime in Europe’s towns and cities has fallen considerably since the implementation of tough lockdown measures across the continent, there is evidence that...
