Saving Nature or Saving the Economy? EU Directivestarts Battle in Bulgaria Over Sites That Will Be Protected
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By Matthew Brunwasser  A scrappy band of 150 young protesters made their way through the freezing streets of the center of Sofia last weekend, pitting nature- lovers against those whose economic future depends on spending Bulgaria's natural wealth.
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E' possibile usufruire delle agevolazioni per ristrutturazioni e lavori finalizzati al risparmio energetico. A patto che si tratti di interventi di natura diversa. Le risposte dell'esperto di Kataweb Economia
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EU members are divided over a European Commission plan to crack down on the lucrative illegal timber trade by making exporters prove their wood is not from endangered rainforests, officials said on Tuesday.
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PRAGUE- The Czech Republic has boosted laws regulating the capital market and collective investment, but it still shows some weaknesses in the protection of small investors, the World Bank has said in an ...
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Talks on national fishing quotas are underway in Brussels between government ministers and the European Commission. The commission recently announced another major round of cuts in the allocations to help conserve stocks.
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Ukraine's project to build a canal in the Danube Delta - a unique wetland area - alarms environmentalists.
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By Peter MacMahon Scottish Goverment Editor  THE company behind controversial plans to site the world's largest onshore wind farm in the Western Isles last night strongly denied that pressing ahead with the project would breach European rules on protecting wildlife.
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Environmentalists think ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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By Jayne Clark  For the first time, global climate change has joined political conflict and development pressures as an underlying threat to cultural heritage sites, as cataloged by the World Monuments Fund on its biennial list of the 100 most endangered places.
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Business: 28 September 2004, Tuesday. Austria's insulating materials producer Austrotherm plans to invest over EUR 3,5M in the construction of a new plant near Bulgaria's capital city Sofia.
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Almost five years after a cyanide spill from a gold mine in northern Romania travelled down the Tisza river in Hungary, leaving a trail of ecological destruction in its wake, local communities in the region ...
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BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell looks at the EU policies that protect the Iberian lynx, but also help destroy its habitat.
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Business: 16 September 2004, Thursday. Bulgarian government has approved a list of strategic sites from the energy sector that will be supplied with special protection, including extra security and information ...
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Politics: 7 January 2005, Friday. Bulgaria will launch a nation-wide forestation campaign this spring, it was disclosed Friday.
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For centuries, Europe's monuments have withstood earthquakes, fire and plundering. Now cultural treasures from the Colosseum to Westminster Abbey could face new threats from climate change, a study says.
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An impoverished backwater that will drain the EU's resources and flood its labor markets with unskilled jobseekers? Or a dynamic economy whose youthful population will help offset a looming pensions crisis? The ...
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Business: 16 October 2004, Saturday. After Bulgaria joins the European Union in 2007, it will be considered as India's gateway to the common European market, according to the Indian Financial Express daily.