Housing crisis: Only 300 properties available for rent in Dublin
While supply is becoming virtually nonexistent, rents are increasing faster than anytime in the last 16 years
The authorities are also preparing a contingency plan with energy-saving measures to be presented at the end of September
Yesterday, 2 August, the Spanish Council of Ministers approved a Royal Decree with a Plan for energy saving and management with air conditioning. Its objective is to reduce the consumption of energy in administrative, commercial and public buildings in the country and promote self-reliance and renewable energy production.
Likewise, the Government indicates that it is preparing a Contingency Plan with energy-saving measures and solidarity actions with the rest of the EU. It will be presented at the end of September.
The energy saving and management plan affects public administration buildings, which already had a recent Decree regarding savings and efficiency; commercial establishments, such as department stores or shopping malls; cultural spaces, such as cinemas or congress centres; or infrastructures intended for the transport of people, such as stations and airports.
The following obligations need to be observed:
To quickly carry out energy improvement works in public administration buildings, the management may apply emergency contracting procedures. In addition, these contracts will be executed within a period of less than one month from their formalization.
EU border countries and communities are increasingly growing uneasy about tolerating daily visits from the aggressor country
The local Senate has introduced a package of measures, aiming to curb municipal energy consumption
This is a brand new step in the internationalization strategy of the Italian state railway company plans to expand
Greece is the only country that registered an increase, compared to numbers from July 2022
The flying machines will disperse seed balls in order to try to save the thin and sensitive soil from erosion in the autumn
If the system proves successful, authorities will scale it up to the rest of Dublin
City authorities say that the park would be complete by mid-December
This summer, the Iberian Peninsula has turned into a veritable tinder source ready for disaster
Greece is the only country that registered an increase, compared to numbers from July 2022
EU border countries and communities are increasingly growing uneasy about tolerating daily visits from the aggressor country
The monument will be a creative and literally moving sculpture called ‘Standing Waves’
The famous Zundert Corso returns on 4-5 September 2022
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
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