This interview was done by The Greens/ European Free Alliance and first published on the blog of The Greens/EFA. Photo via Flickr by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung The Greens/EFA group have...
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Is there a socially acceptable phasing out process for coal mining? What are the impacts on the employees and is there such a thing as a “socially responsible...
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In the Ruhr area in western Germany steel melts just as cities do and traditions must. Transforming the industrial heart of Germany has been a decades-long experience. While...
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Aleksander Szpor and Konstancja Ziółkowska from IBS (Institute for Structural Research) provide the overview of the Polish coal mining sector transformation since the 1990s until 2015 – IISD...
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Text and photos by Michalis Prodromou It’s been only a few weeks since the WWF Greece team reached out to several stakeholders in the lignite sector in Western...
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Interview with Montserrat Mir, elected confederate secretary of ETUC
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In Imielin, a 9,000-strong Silesian town, local residents and authorities are protesting plans by Polska Grupa Górnicza (PGG) to start coal extraction in the Imielin-North field, which overlaps...
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Until recently, the term ‘coal phaseout’ was tabu in Central Europe. But things are changing in Czechia and Slovakia. Hard coal mines are continuously shutting down because of...
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In 2,500-person-strong Horní Jiřetín, north-west Czechia, close to the German border, mayor Vladimír Buřt stands atop the local church, looking beyond the mix of silver rooftops and greenery...
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We’ve gotten used to hearing bad news from BAZ (Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén) county in the northeast corner of Hungary: many of the 700,000 people who used to live there moved...
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