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...
Tag - Environment & Energy
A boost to industry or a threat to energy security? On January 8, the Russian president Vladimir Putin met with his Turkish, Bulgarian and Serbian counterparts in...
The European Commission’s Just Transition Mechanism, the first part of a decade-long Green Deal funding package, estimated to be worth upwards of one trillion...
Environmentalists in Bulgaria are demanding that the country appoint a professionally competent individual with a responsible attitude to nature to replace Neno Dimov...
Hungary’s housing policies are failing, the governor of the national bank (MNB) György Matolcsy has claimed, urging the government to draft new policies to redress what...
On the same day that air pollution in Bucharest was shown to be as bad as Sydney, Australia, a city currently struggling to cope with the effects of unprecedented...
The supply of Russian oil to Belarus is becoming an increasingly political issue, as the respective governments continue to negotiate a long-term agreement on the flow...
Following a year of 25th anniversary celebrations and the inaugural Forest Summit in October, the Armenia Tree Project (ATP) has reached yet another milestone, planting...
As dawn broke on New Year’s Day, Bulgaria began taking delivery of Russian natural gas via the TurkStream pipeline. The country’s energy minister, Tememoujka...
Emerging Europe crunched the numbers to find out which of the 23 capitals of the region offers its citizens the highest quality of living. Prague came out on top...
Recent claims made by Russia’s president Vladimir Putin about the causes of World War II threaten “what Europe means”, the Polish prime...
As the European Commission moves ahead with its New Green Deal, which aims at reducing carbon emissions 55 per cent by 2030, and sets 2050 as its target date for zero...
‘Climate strike’ is the Collins Dictionary’s 2019 word of the year, reflecting how climate demonstrations have drawn millions of participants worldwide...