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The big highlights of the project are two cycling highways, one leading to Lower Austria in the south and another leading to Donaustadt
Sântana has only 11,000 residents, yet several municipal buildings will get connected to a renewable geothermal reservoir deep underground
With a decline in passengers due to Covid-19 and the energy crisis, among other factors, the city will focus on increasing the quality of service
The idea dates back even to Antiquity, but how feasible is it?
While the new health policy will fund the morning-after pill and various progesterone treatments, it will not cover condoms
The cultural and victim remembrance facility will be located in Rome
The city wants new approaches to developing the urban environment and is willing to fund the best solutions
Around 75% of German CO2 emissions come from the private sector, yet less than 1% of businesses are considered fully sustainable
City officials found that simple messages about respecting residents’ sleep were most effective if coupled with the right presentation
The city has a strategy of putting 10,000 human-controlled and autonomous shuttles on the streets by 2030
The city has learned a lot from an ongoing project for a solar roof on the Altonaer Museum
Sântana has only 11,000 residents, yet several municipal buildings will get connected to a renewable geothermal reservoir deep underground
With a decline in passengers due to Covid-19 and the energy crisis, among other factors, the city will focus on increasing the quality of service
The big highlights of the project are two cycling highways, one leading to Lower Austria in the south and another leading to Donaustadt
It will open its doors in 2024 and offer cremations and burials
The building will be on the site of Plato’s Ancient Academy
The city has learned a lot from an ongoing project for a solar roof on the Altonaer Museum
The city has arranged four tailor-made programmes for the different residences as a way to reconnect with patients’ life and memories
The city has developed its own way to teach young people how to react when they witness unjust treatments
The city will supply and maintain 138 dispensers in public buildings
While the new health policy will fund the morning-after pill and various progesterone treatments, it will not cover condoms
City officials found that simple messages about respecting residents’ sleep were most effective if coupled with the right presentation
Breaking the rule could set you back some 30 euros
On the first day of July, the regulation banning the smoking of cigarettes on the beaches of Barcelona officially entered into force. This will apply all year round and not only during the tourist season, with a view to creating healthy, clean and more appealing public spaces on the Catalan capital’s coastal stretch. Infractions to the smoking ban will be sanctioned with up to 30 euros.
This makes Barcelona the first Spanish city to implement such a move. The prohibition on smoking, however, does already exist on hundreds of beaches across Spain after a national law allowed municipalities to implement such measures. In that respect, Barcelona will be fairly lenient to offenders, as other beaches have imposed much steeper penalties.
For example, people caught lighting up on three beaches on the island of Mallorca will have to fork out up to almost 2,000 euros. The beaches in question are Santa Ponsa, La Romana (Paguera) and Carregador (Palmanova).
A European directive from 2019 pointed out the problem with cigarette butts and their slow degradation, and that they are "the second most common plastic pollutant on beaches". It served as the basis for the Spanish law, which relegated the powers to impose bans and fines upon local authorities.
The beaches of Barcelona have a total length of about 5 kilometres and an area of 240,000 square meters. In the warm months of the year, they are visited by nearly 4 million people, of which families with children are nearly 10%.
In that view, the city authorities carried out a pilot test last year in order to study the effectiveness of a potential ban and the way it would be received among the general population.
The pilot test’s results showed a significant reduction in the percentage of people smoking on the beaches and the number of cigarette butts left on the sand. The initiative received a satisfactory score, more than 8 points out of 10, from the beaches’ users.
It’s unclear when it will reopen
While the new health policy will fund the morning-after pill and various progesterone treatments, it will not cover condoms
With a decline in passengers due to Covid-19 and the energy crisis, among other factors, the city will focus on increasing the quality of service
City officials found that simple messages about respecting residents’ sleep were most effective if coupled with the right presentation
The city has a strategy of putting 10,000 human-controlled and autonomous shuttles on the streets by 2030
Last week, the Chinese app was banned for Belgian federal employees for an initial period of six months
The heritage district has four times less verdant spaces per person than the rest of the Basque capital
The city has learned a lot from an ongoing project for a solar roof on the Altonaer Museum
With a decline in passengers due to Covid-19 and the energy crisis, among other factors, the city will focus on increasing the quality of service
It’s unclear when it will reopen
The city has learned a lot from an ongoing project for a solar roof on the Altonaer Museum
While the new health policy will fund the morning-after pill and various progesterone treatments, it will not cover condoms
The new itineraries are part of the DiscoverEU programme, which lets 18-year-olds travel by train between important European sites
The European Commission has published its first progress report charting the achievements of the socio-cultural movement that combines beauty, inclusion and sustainability
The 2023 edition of the creative initiative promises to be bigger, bolder and more inclusive
A talk with the head of Mission Zero Academy on the benefits for municipalities if they go the zero waste way
A talk with Nicolae Urs, one of the key figures behind the city's new data platforms and online services strategy
Veni Markovski’s take on dealing with disinformation in the European Union's poorest country – Bulgaria
