From mid-July to mid-August, Valentina Ivanovna spends her nights in a sleeping bag on a bench in the yard while renting out her one-room apartment…
The whole of Russia is now keeping its eyes on Arkhangelsk Oblast, where local residents continue their struggle against large businesses planning to dump household…
Minority members of the Romanian Parliament are struggling to promote dialogue with civil society on waste management at a time when the majority in power…
It’s a frosty January afternoon in the seaside resort of Großräschen. Despite the penetrating cold, a group of elderly bon vivants are rising a late…
On a hot day two Bulgarian architects and two engineers from Sweden and from Denmark drove some 500 kilometres to Gorna Malina, a small town…
The democratic institutions on the Balkans are not famous for their effectiveness, but several local referendums in Bulgaria and Macedonia held in the spring and…
Concentrated in the hands of big players, agricultural land in Europe is getting less and less affordable for small farmers who turn their backs on…
Repeated road blocks near Bulgaria’s second largest city of Plovdiv took on a metaphorical meaning this past December as locals came out en masse in…
Harsh labour conditions, social uncertainty, a polluted environment and oligarchic ownership dominate coal mining in Bulgaria. Despite the promises to overcome climate change and to…
Vlasina, a pristine area in southeastern Serbia featuring a beautiful lake on the Jerma river, appears undisturbed by any possible transborder pollution from nearby Bulgaria….
