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Coal Mines in Europe
Coal mines are not just images from ‘Germinal’, Émile Zola’s famous novel. Although doomed to disappear due to the…
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EU Energy Ministers Meet to Discuss Major Energy Topics
On April 22, under the auspices of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union, EU Energy Ministers…
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Romania’s Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRRP)
Romanian Government has sent to Brussels the RRRP and will officially start negotiations with the European Commission on May 1,…
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Financing of Innovating Green Technologies – EIC Accelerator Challenges 2021
Green Deal Innovation for the Economic Recovery is the second type of call within EIC Accelerator Challenges, being dedicated to…
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EU First Facility for Recycling Car Batteries
With the help of a loan of up to €25 million from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD),…
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European Parliament Gives Go-ahead to EUR 672.5bln Recovery and Resilience Facility
The European Parliament approved the Recovery and Resilience Facility, designed to help EU countries tackle the effects of the COVID-19…
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Scope of the EU Border Carbon Tax Widened
European Parliament’s Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety will vote on the introduction of a carbon tax at…
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President Nicolae Turdean Shares NAMR Priorities in 2021
About the novelties to the Mining Law and NAMR priorities, we have talked with the President of the institution, Nicolae…
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RWEA Becomes a Member of the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance
The European Clean Hydrogen Alliance aims at an ambitious development of hydrogen-based technologies by 2030, bringing together the renewable sector,…
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Dr. William Gillett: No Climate Benefit from Hydrogen unless EU Stops Subsidies for Fossil Fuels
Hydrogen is an important alternative for sectors that are stuck in the fossil fuel economy. As national governments and European…
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Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: EU Methane Strategy
The European Commission presented on October 14 an EU strategy to reduce methane emissions. Methane is the second biggest contributor…
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Microplastic – The Invisible Enemy
How worried should we be about microplastic? Beyond global warming, considered as the main adverse effect of human activity, the…
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First Solar Power Plant in Armenia
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IFC, a member of the World Bank Group; and the European Union (EU)…
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Cleanest Countries in the European Union
Romania is one of the cleanest countries in the European Union, the level of greenhouse gas emissions falling to 116.5…
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EU Parliament to Boost Investment in Green and Sustainable Projects
The European Commission (EC) has welcomed the adoption by the European Parliament of the Taxonomy Regulation – a key piece…
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European Economic Forecasts
According to the economic forecasts from the spring of 2020, in Romania GDP will drop by 6% in 2020, following…
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Syrian Proxy Wars: A Mad Max Story
The article focuses on Syrian civil war, Turkey’s role, as one of the major actors and catalyst in this regional…
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BRUA gas pipeline evolution on the agenda of the TTE Council
Romania’s Energy Minister Anton Anton attended, in Brussels, a meeting with representatives of Austria, Bulgaria and Hungary on the evolution…
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Cleaner, safer, quieter tyres
The EU is updating its rules on the energy performance labelling of tyres and extending its scope to tyres for…
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Is coal on the way out?
Over the past few decades the production and consumption of coal in the EU has been in steady decline, due…
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