All too often, open-pit mining reduces the quality of life for locals because of the pollution it creates, and then afterwards, the location is not restored to its former beauty….
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These are stories of citizens and communities spearheading a sustainable transformation that yields multiple environmental and social benefits. The reforms to the EU Budget advocated by our campaign would enable many more of these kinds of stories to become the norm across Europe.
We're asking this question of stakeholders involved in the design and implementation of the next EU budget, in order to back up our proposals about what a People's Budget for...
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One of the least developed regions in the Czech Republic, the Ústecký district emerged from the Second World War with a rapidly expanding opencast mining industry and loss of citizens…
The complete cancellation of the operational support for the Czech renewable sources which was a political reaction to the disproportionate photovoltaic support in the years 2010 and 2011, influenced all…
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…
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…
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…
