With the Energy Union envisioned as having `the citizens at its core’ where they can `take ownership of the energy transition, benefit from new technologies to reduce their bills, participate…
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It has been a long waiting game for most of the 2.7 million Hungarian households who need to make their homes more energy efficient. For the last decade, basically no EU Funds have…
Photo by Pietro Naj-Oleari (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) By Raphael Hanoteaux – EU Policy Officer, CEE Bankwatch Network – 19 March 2018 On 14 March, the Members of the European Parliament voted…
So far a small housing community from Pszczelna Street in Szczecin was not much different than any other similar bodies. However, since Mr. Krzysztof Stasiewicz and Mr. Piotr Brzuszkiewicz –…
Business interests continue to overshadow public concerns with regards to the dubious €100-million tram project in Riga. Half a year ago I questioned a EUR 100 million investment in the project dubbed…
Housing Europe, the European Federation for Public, Cooperative and Social Housing and its members joined two EU funded projects – called Heart and Triple A Reno to demonstrate how technological…
On Monday, 5th February 2018, the Luxembourg-based European Investment Bank (EIB) admitted for the first time city delegates to its annual meeting with civil society. All ears, the EIB Board…
Slovak local, regional and national authorities have started working on an Action Plan for the post-coal development of the Upper Nitra region, Slovakia’s mining area and one of the pilot…
A train ride offers time for reflecting on how the EU budget can be put to use for the common good. This blog post is the result of a small experiment…
The renovation will be televised: Latvia’s energy efficiency programme for multi-apartment buildings
A pressing challenge in post-Soviet cities and towns is the conversion of modernist planning into a contemporary and sustainable built environment. The massive housing stock from the second part…
