Roma's discrimination in Serbia is to be discussed by the UN. Serbian member group CEKOR is contributing with experience from the Gazela resettlement process.
Yesterday, police in Khimki arrested an activist of the Movement for the Defence of Khimki Forest. The activist Alla Chernyshova and her daughters of 3 and 6 had to spend more than five hours in custody where she was questioned as the main suspect for a false bomb threat.
As tensions are flaring up in EU's southern neighbourhood and the dealings with eastern petro-states are politically embarassing, the 27-strong bloc is looking for inspiration in the Scandinavian energy market and considering a north-south gas corridor.
Hundreds of people are expected to attend a protest against illegal levels of air pollution from the local ArcelorMittal steelmill this Friday afternoon. The action has been organized through social media and is supported by local NGOs Dosta! and Zenica Eko-Forum.
EU plans to finance start-ups must be accompanied by more transparency from the European Investment Bank, writes Isabella Besedova of the CEE (Central and Eastern Europe) Bankwatch Network in an exclusive commentary for EurActiv.
As a consultation on biowaste recycling targets has just come to a close, a member of environmental group CEE Bankwatch Network in Croatia says that a biowaste directive is the only way to implement the EU waste hierarchy in eastern countries.
EU funding for a controversial coal-powered energy plant in Slovenia has reignited debate over the EU's Emission Trading System (ETS), with environmental activists saying the case represents an extreme case of EU policy conflict.
Environmentalists are warning that a new coal plant which has secured 770 million euro of loans from European financial institutions risks turning the EU's 2050 climate goals into a "laughing stock".
Ahead of Friday's European Council on Energy, CEE Bankwatch Network is urging political will from both the Hungarian EU Presidency and other central and eastern European heads of state to ensure binding targets for improving energy efficiency by 20 percent by the year 2020 if the bloc is to play its part in meeting climate targets under the Europe 2020 strategy.
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