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Even though the region is heavily dependent on highly polluting fossil fuel installations, coal phase-out plans in the region are weak or non-existent. What is more, declarative…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB264015
ISSN: 2633-304X
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EU membership candidates in the region have committed to align their legislation and policies with Brussels’s green agenda. Investment in wind and solar power by domestic and…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB276524
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The global shift to a green economy coupled with the EU’s decarbonisation policy is creating new opportunities for business in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Low labour costs…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB278964
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The implications of the EU's planned Energy Union for the Western Balkans.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB198884
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Aimed to connect Skopje with Sofia and financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the EU, the 89-kilometre line advances the completion of…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB274206
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In Europe, environmentalist groups and farmers oppose the deal and have growing support among governments and in the European Parliament, in particular as a result of Brazil’s…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB262106
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Overall, some 30% of the budget will involve climate-related spending. One of the key reforms concerns the EU’s own resources mechanism to finance spending, with plans to…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB255114
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In Amazonia, deforestation increased by 25% year-on-year in the first half of 2020. The situation has led large institutional investors, corporations and foreign governments to…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB256215
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Efforts to tackle financial problems at state-owned coal miner Polska Grupa Gornicza (PGG) were deferred during the two-year election cycle which ended in July. PGG faces the…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB256279
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Non-economic priorities such as nation-building and partisan political interests have often shaped large developmental projects in the Western Balkans, facilitated by…