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City officials believe that financial conditions will deteriorate in the coming winter months
The Latvian capital joins a growing rank of European cities that have turned to taxing the visitors’ impact
The EDMO hubs work to connect fact-checkers, academia and the media, as well as boost local media literacy
Ireland is currently going through a major rental housing crisis
The Estonian city is preparing for its upcoming European Green Capital year in style
The birds will be specially trained to scare off pigeons from their favourite places in the city’s parks
The system uses a simple tri-colour traffic light code to let commuters know the best place to enter a train
The smart devices also let drivers with reduced mobility know where the nearest free spot is located
Plants feed on CO2 and plenty of it is produced at the local Tekniska verken energy company, so there’s a circular win-win solution
The city’s Second District opted for sustainable Christmas decoration this year
The city marked the 250th e-taxi license, issued by local traffic authorities
The city will limit the number of these two-wheelers in the centre to 500, in order to push companies to service residential areas as well
The system uses a simple tri-colour traffic light code to let commuters know the best place to enter a train
The smart devices also let drivers with reduced mobility know where the nearest free spot is located
City officials believe that financial conditions will deteriorate in the coming winter months
Some shops have stayed open for more than six generations of the same family and trace their origins to the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Faux or fact? Now, it’s up to you to shine the light on the truth
Local authorities want to monitor the situation and keep a healthy housing balance
Ireland is currently going through a major rental housing crisis
It will aid them in collecting data about the incidents that can be used in court
The pair of candidates with the largest share of the vote, who could not overcome the 50 per cent barrier in the first round, will be given a second chance in the run-offs on 3 November
On 3 November Bulgarians will go to the ballot box for a second time in a week, voting for mayors and municipal councils in the run-off to local elections 2019. A second round will be held only in the towns and villages where no one has emerged as an outright winner in the first round, securing an absolute majority of 50 per cent plus 1 of all eligible ballots.
According to Bulgaria’s Electoral Code, regional elections are held in two rounds. The second round is open to those contenders, usually a pair, who have scooped the greatest number of votes, no matter how far apart they stand in election results.
There will be no second round in 9 district capital cities – Vratsa, Montana, Stara Zagora, Burgas, Veliko Tarnovo, Kardjali, Gabrovo, Kyustendil and Haskovo. Those cities now have elected mayors following first round victories. Eight of them are GERB ruling party stalwarts and one, the mayor of Kardjali, is the perennial candidate of the Turkish minority party Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF), which is the dominant political force in that region.
It is noteworthy that many of the incumbent mayors in the large district cities have run again – and have won. Record holder among them is the mayor of the city of Montana Zlatko Zhivkov, who secured a sixth consecutive term with the resounding 71,75% share of the vote. He is followed by Hasan Azis, who won his fifth term as mayor of Kardjali with 53,02%. The mayor of Burgas Dimitar Nikolov was re-elected for a fourth term, grabbing 65.83% of the vote. A sizeable majority (68.63%) of voters in Stara Zagora entrusted mayor Zhivko Todorov with a third consecutive term.
As analysts point out, in some cases, the new credit of trust was a recognition of a job well done, otherwise voters simply didn’t see any real alternative to the present local government among the listed candidates.
The second round, which will see contending candidates in 97 municipalities, including the district capital cities of Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna, Ruse, Blagoevgrad, Pleven, Pernik, Shumen and Yambol, will be not without surprises.
A complicated entanglement is in store especially for Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia – a traditional stronghold of right-leaning voters. Much-criticized incumbent mayor Yordanka Fandakova (GERB), now in her second term of office, will face independent runner-up and popular ex-ombudsman Maya Manolova, supported by the oppositional Bulgarian Socialist Party, who lagged Fandakova in the first round by just 9 percentage points. The vote in Sofia can swing depending on the choice of supporters of two emerging players – Democratic Bulgaria coalition and Save Sofia citizen’s alliance, whose own candidates have lost the race.
The local authorities are taking the bold step as a way to declutter the urban streets from delivery traffic
One-third of homes on the islands this year were sold to nationals of other countries, many of whom are non-residents
This was one of the more creative and unusual ideas set to take shape as a result of the second participatory budget initiative in the city
Users can now get an overview of the state of the output in the country and receive a warning to reduce consumption and avoid power cuts
The city will launch an urban walk with a digital visual guide
The system uses a simple tri-colour traffic light code to let commuters know the best place to enter a train
The city inaugurated twelve of these spots to encourage people to still feel at home while on the street
The Danish capital was recognized for its citizen-centric approach to urban planning
The pioneering green move would make the country the first in Europe to do so
The city inaugurated twelve of these spots to encourage people to still feel at home while on the street
This was one of the more creative and unusual ideas set to take shape as a result of the second participatory budget initiative in the city
The city will launch an urban walk with a digital visual guide
This initiative seeks to integrate the values of the New European Bauhaus into the European Commission’s 100 Cities Mission
These will be spread across 11 EU countries and will serve to support the EU Missions
The European Commission has accepted to develop the idea
Veni Markovski’s take on dealing with disinformation in the European Union's poorest country – Bulgaria
A conversation with the mayor of Utrecht on the occasion of her mission to COP27
A conversation with the President of the European Committee of the Regions, about energy, climate change and the underrated importance of cohesion policy
