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Netherlands / Amsterdam / Development / Public Spaces

How do we make Amsterdam’s bike tunnels less scary?

It involves all the five senses, apparently

Jun 1, 2023 17:21
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France / Development / Economy and Finance

France starts building its Battery Valley with opening of new gigafactory

The facility located near Lens is the first step in the grand re-industrialization of the North along modern tech lines

May 31, 2023 13:17

Economy and Finance

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Spain / Culture and Tourism / Economy and Finance

Spanish domestic flights tickets can be paid in up to 12 installments

Iberia will be the first company to introduce this option in the country

May 31, 2023 16:09
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France / Development / Economy and Finance

France starts building its Battery Valley with opening of new gigafactory

The facility located near Lens is the first step in the grand re-industrialization of the North along modern tech lines

May 31, 2023 13:17

Politics and Reforms

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Germany / Mobility / Politics and Reforms

10 million people have bought the Deutschland ticket in a month

Germany’s new approach has convinced hundreds of thousands of people to start using public transport for the first time

Jun 1, 2023 16:00
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Bulgaria / Sofia / Mobility / Politics and Reforms

Sofia cracks down on e-scooters with fines of up to 500 euros for companies

Drivers will be legally required to push their scooters manually in pedestrian areas and parks

May 31, 2023 17:09

Innovation and Research

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Luxembourg / Culture and Tourism / Innovation and Research

Esch2022 – the benefits and aftermath of European Capital of Culture

The team presented the final report about a year, which was supposed to put the Luxembourgish city on the cultural map of Europe

May 29, 2023 16:29
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Innovation and Research

Museums and police in Europe join forces to fight illicit trade in artefacts

European projects are developing new ways to clamp down on international trafficking of cultural goods

May 23, 2023 16:56

Digital transformation

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Bulgaria / Greece / Athens / Sofia / Thessaloniki / Digital transformation / Mobility

Sofia – Thessaloniki highway to support autonomous vehicles by 2025

Greece and Bulgaria are set to build one of the first 5G cross-border corridors in Europe

May 31, 2023 14:42
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Finland / Digital transformation / Welfare and Health

After dogs, Finland wants to register all cats on its territory, too

The feline registry is expected to start operating in 2026

May 30, 2023 17:42

Energy efficiency

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Luxembourg / Portugal / Energy efficiency / Politics and Reforms

Luxembourg and Portugal to develop a hydrogen corridor

Portugal is growing its renewable energy sector and will soon have a large hydrogen electrolyser in the port of Sines

May 31, 2023 11:00
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Germany / Economy and Finance / Energy efficiency

BMW will expand green car plant in Leipzig

The city has signed a new lease deal for an area of 12 hectares which will include production facilities and renewable energy generation

May 29, 2023 13:07

Mobility

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Germany / Mobility / Politics and Reforms

10 million people have bought the Deutschland ticket in a month

Germany’s new approach has convinced hundreds of thousands of people to start using public transport for the first time

Jun 1, 2023 16:00
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Denmark / Mobility / Social City

Danish town to lend families cargo bikes so they can experience car-less life

Fredensborg Municipality is inviting residents to take the bikes for a spin…lasting up to 3 months

Jun 1, 2023 14:06

Public Spaces

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Netherlands / Amsterdam / Development / Public Spaces

How do we make Amsterdam’s bike tunnels less scary?

It involves all the five senses, apparently

Jun 1, 2023 17:21
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France / Lyon / Public Spaces / Social City

Lyon makes parking fees socially fair and environmentally just

What you pay for having your car resting in the city will now depend on several different factors

Jun 1, 2023 16:02

Culture and Tourism

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Culture and Tourism / Mobility

Night train tester: Europe’s newest profession

After all, sleeping carriages are basically hotels on wheels

May 31, 2023 17:49
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Spain / Culture and Tourism / Economy and Finance

Spanish domestic flights tickets can be paid in up to 12 installments

Iberia will be the first company to introduce this option in the country

May 31, 2023 16:09

Education and Sport

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Portugal / Lisbon / Development / Education and Sport

Cristiano Ronaldo’s former home in Lisbon soon up for rent

The apartment building has just undergone a renovation worth 14 million euros

May 15, 2023 18:07
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Poland / Krakow / Education and Sport / Social City

Krakow and Shell will donate 1,000 laptops to war refugees

It’s a repetition of the donation drive, treating aid not as a sprint but as a marathon

May 11, 2023 17:38

Welfare and Health

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Finland / Digital transformation / Welfare and Health

After dogs, Finland wants to register all cats on its territory, too

The feline registry is expected to start operating in 2026

May 30, 2023 17:42
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Germany / Berlin / Politics and Reforms / Welfare and Health

Berlin will treat wounded Ukrainian soldiers for free

With the ramp-up of the summer offensive, authorities estimate up to 500 wounded soldiers per month

May 23, 2023 13:53
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Interviews / Read Twice

Maja Sever: Journalism is a pillar of democracy

Apr 10, 2023 13:46
Magdalena Magdić
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Interviews

Kaisa Karjalainen: “It’s better to be an imperfect zero waster for the rest of our lives than a perfect one for two weeks”

Mar 14, 2023 12:56
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Romania / Cluj-Napoca / Digital transformation / Interviews / Politics and Reforms

Online public services as efficient as TikTok: Cluj-Napoca’s Digital Transformation

Feb 16, 2023 13:51
Denis Balgaranov
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Bulgaria / Interviews / Read Twice

Veni Markovski: It's about time the media stopped inviting “experts” who spread false info

Nov 28, 2022 11:30
Denis Balgaranov
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Netherlands / Utrecht / Green City / Interviews

Sharon Dijksma: Without cities, it will be impossible to tackle global warming

Nov 21, 2022 13:41
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Interviews / Politics and Reforms

Vasco Cordeiro: The European project is at stake when solidarity is at stake

Aug 1, 2022 11:34
Denis Balgaranov
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Interviews

Cities Mission has made citizen engagement and participatory processes an important part of its functioning

Jul 14, 2022 14:57
ICLEI Europe
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Portugal / Matosinhos / Interviews

Luisa Salgueiro: Climate resilience work is never completed, it’s a continuously upgraded project

Jun 23, 2022 12:41
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Interviews

EBRD's aim is to support increased climate ambition within cities

May 18, 2022 13:33
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Greece / Athens / Interviews / Welfare and Health

Melina Daskalaki: Our mission is to promote the social reintegration of homeless individuals

May 16, 2022 11:04
Svilena Iotkovska

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Netherlands / Amsterdam / Development / Public Spaces

How do we make Amsterdam’s bike tunnels less scary?

It involves all the five senses, apparently

Jun 01, 2023 17:21
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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France / Lyon / Public Spaces / Social City

Lyon makes parking fees socially fair and environmentally just

What you pay for having your car resting in the city will now depend on several different factors

Jun 01, 2023 16:02
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Germany / Mobility / Politics and Reforms

10 million people have bought the Deutschland ticket in a month

Germany’s new approach has convinced hundreds of thousands of people to start using public transport for the first time

Jun 01, 2023 16:00
Denis Balgaranov
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Denmark / Mobility / Social City

Danish town to lend families cargo bikes so they can experience car-less life

Fredensborg Municipality is inviting residents to take the bikes for a spin…lasting up to 3 months

Jun 01, 2023 14:06
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Culture and Tourism / Mobility

Night train tester: Europe’s newest profession

After all, sleeping carriages are basically hotels on wheels

May 31, 2023 17:49
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Bulgaria / Sofia / Mobility / Politics and Reforms

Sofia cracks down on e-scooters with fines of up to 500 euros for companies

Drivers will be legally required to push their scooters manually in pedestrian areas and parks

May 31, 2023 17:09
Denis Balgaranov
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Spain / Culture and Tourism / Economy and Finance

Spanish domestic flights tickets can be paid in up to 12 installments

Iberia will be the first company to introduce this option in the country

May 31, 2023 16:09
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Bulgaria / Greece / Athens / Sofia / Thessaloniki / Digital transformation / Mobility

Sofia – Thessaloniki highway to support autonomous vehicles by 2025

Greece and Bulgaria are set to build one of the first 5G cross-border corridors in Europe

May 31, 2023 14:42
Denis Balgaranov
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France / Development / Economy and Finance

France starts building its Battery Valley with opening of new gigafactory

The facility located near Lens is the first step in the grand re-industrialization of the North along modern tech lines

May 31, 2023 13:17
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Luxembourg / Portugal / Energy efficiency / Politics and Reforms

Luxembourg and Portugal to develop a hydrogen corridor

Portugal is growing its renewable energy sector and will soon have a large hydrogen electrolyser in the port of Sines

May 31, 2023 11:00
Denis Balgaranov
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Finland / Digital transformation / Welfare and Health

After dogs, Finland wants to register all cats on its territory, too

The feline registry is expected to start operating in 2026

May 30, 2023 17:42
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Germany / Berlin / Development / Social City

Berlin will build social housing for lesbian and queer women in the city centre

The development will offer 70 rental apartments at 6.90 euros per square metre

May 30, 2023 15:58
Denis Balgaranov
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Finland / Culture and Tourism / Economy and Finance

Finnish cities to require permits for Airbnb hosts not living on their properties

The aim is to curb the ‘professionalization’ of short-term rentals

May 30, 2023 15:45
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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France / Green City / Mobility

Ahead of generalization, French society opposes low-emission zones in cities

But also, 60% of the people in the country do not know what a ‘low-emission zone’ is

May 30, 2023 11:59
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Denmark / Copenhagen / Mobility / Public Spaces

Copenhagen creates parking lots only for e-car sharing services

1,000 such spaces, strategically placed near public transit hubs, will help rethink the place of the car in the city

May 29, 2023 17:44
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Luxembourg / Culture and Tourism / Innovation and Research

Esch2022 – the benefits and aftermath of European Capital of Culture

The team presented the final report about a year, which was supposed to put the Luxembourgish city on the cultural map of Europe

May 29, 2023 16:29
Denis Balgaranov
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Belgium / Brussels / Development / Growing City

Brussels Urban Summit 2023 will confront challenges common to all cities

Reps from 300 cities worldwide will head to the Belgian capital, 12-15 June

May 29, 2023 15:45
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Germany / Economy and Finance / Energy efficiency

BMW will expand green car plant in Leipzig

The city has signed a new lease deal for an area of 12 hectares which will include production facilities and renewable energy generation

May 29, 2023 13:07
Denis Balgaranov
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Spain / Politics and Reforms

Conservative tide takes over Spain’s main cities after elections

The results are also seen as a litmus test for the upcoming national vote later this year

May 29, 2023 11:33
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Lithuania / Vilnius / Digital transformation / Green City

Smart system will detect how thirsty Vilnius trees are

Special sensors will measure the moisture content in the soil near the roots

May 26, 2023 17:25
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Denmark / Copenhagen / Culture and Tourism / Green City

Copenhagen Pride will be first in the world to use only e-vehicles

This year, green will be the most prominent of the rainbow flag colours

May 26, 2023 16:24
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Bulgaria / Culture and Tourism

This Bulgarian town unveiled a museum for one painting

It’s the first of its kind in the country and it’s quite unique even in a global context

May 26, 2023 13:17
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Netherlands / Utrecht / Development / Green City

A vertical forest skyscraper will grow in Utrecht

It is designed by the same architect that came up with Milan’s iconic Bosco Verticale

May 25, 2023 17:48
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Bulgaria / Culture and Tourism / Digital transformation

You can talk to Bulgarian communist camp survivors thanks to AI

An innovative project shows how history can be made vibrant with the help of cutting-edge tech

May 25, 2023 15:32
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Belgium / Germany / Berlin / Brussels / Development / Mobility

First direct night train between Berlin and Brussels since 2008 departs today

An Amsterdam-Barcelona route is also in the works, with a potential stopover in Paris

May 25, 2023 12:47
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Bulgaria / Read Twice

Youngsters trained other youngsters in Sofia to deal with disinformation

The workshop phase of the Read Twice project in Bulgaria has ended. See what's next.

May 24, 2023 13:00
Aseniya Dimitrova
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Finland / Development / Digital transformation

Finnish dating-app-like service matches rural homes with occupants

Pay no rent and help revive the countryside

May 23, 2023 17:55
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Estonia / Tallinn / Green City / New European Bauhaus

Tallinn’s Pollinator Highway is enriched with interspecies installations

The practical art objects are competing for one of the 2023 New European Bauhaus Prizes

May 23, 2023 16:57
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Innovation and Research

Museums and police in Europe join forces to fight illicit trade in artefacts

European projects are developing new ways to clamp down on international trafficking of cultural goods

May 23, 2023 16:56
Horizon
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Netherlands / Innovation and Research / Public Spaces

Meet the new Rotterdam rapid response anti-litter team

It will also respond to alarms from citizens in real-time

May 23, 2023 15:47
Denis Balgaranov
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Germany / Berlin / Politics and Reforms / Welfare and Health

Berlin will treat wounded Ukrainian soldiers for free

With the ramp-up of the summer offensive, authorities estimate up to 500 wounded soldiers per month

May 23, 2023 13:53
Denis Balgaranov
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Portugal / Porto / Culture and Tourism / Development

Porto metropolis might receive cruise ships in two years

While some cities are looking to turn away from that type of tourism, others seem to be priming themselves for it

May 23, 2023 13:13
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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France / Paris / Green City / Social City

Paris initiates a solidarity used phones collection drive to fight digital poverty

This is the first initiative of this kind in the French capital

May 23, 2023 09:31
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Belgium / Development / Innovation and Research

Ghent needs to invest in housing or risk wealth displacement

The study showed that households with multiple people are growing much faster than regional rates, putting pressure on the housing market

May 22, 2023 16:01
Denis Balgaranov
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Italy / Rome / Culture and Tourism / Green City

Trevi fountain activists made their point, but was that smart?

The entire fountain has to be emptied and cleaned, in a year when the country is gripped by drought anxiety

May 22, 2023 14:48
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Germany / Hamburg / Culture and Tourism / Digital transformation

Hamburg shines a light on troubled heritage with new app

The app is based on the book “Hamburg: Germany's gateway to the colonial world”

May 22, 2023 14:21
Denis Balgaranov
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Austria / Green City / Innovation and Research

400 baby deer saved with heat-seeking drone in Tyrol

Around 25,000 newborn fawns fall victim to mowing in May and June in Austria

May 22, 2023 12:37
Denis Balgaranov
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Czechia / Prague / Culture and Tourism / Politics and Reforms

Navalny’s isolation jail cell travels to European cities

The replica prison unit brings attention to the suffering of the Russian democracy activist

May 22, 2023 11:31
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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France / Culture and Tourism / Mobility

Ride a French train for only 1 euro

Oigo Classique is offering 10,000 tickets for its routes, but you only have 24 hours to get in on the deal

May 19, 2023 17:21
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Austria / Vienna / Development / Energy efficiency

Vienna starts drilling for geothermal heat in residential districts

The pilot project is part of the city’s plans to exit natural gas dependency as soon as possible

May 19, 2023 16:25
Denis Balgaranov
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Italy / Culture and Tourism

Italy opens up more than 400 castles and villas to the public on 21 May

This is part of the National Day of the Italian Historic Houses Association giving the public the chance to access some privately held heritage sites

May 19, 2023 14:45
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Belgium / Public Spaces / Social City

Belgian town celebrates pride with LGBT+ traffic lights

Hemiksem wants to take a page out of London’s book

May 19, 2023 14:04
Denis Balgaranov
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Sweden / Stockholm / Mobility

Stockholmers left without city bikes, at least for a year

The Stockholm eBikes service was supposed to be revolutionary in its affordability

May 19, 2023 12:35
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Germany / Politics and Reforms

Mainz - first in line to have cannabis coffee shops in Germany

The city voted to become a cannabis model region despite no such mechanism existing in German law

May 19, 2023 11:46
Denis Balgaranov
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EU funding updates / Green City

Horizon Europe offers a pathway to 100 cities and regions to become climate resilient

The programme invites authorities to sign up and help achieve EU's Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change

May 18, 2023 12:32
ICLEI Europe
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Portugal / Energy efficiency

More than half of Portuguese electricity now comes from solar and wind

And the summer hasn’t even begun so that share is likely to go up even more

May 18, 2023 12:10
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Austria / Development / Green City

Arnold Schwarzenegger inaugurates climate solutions hub in Austria

It will share good regional environmental practices from Lower Austria with the rest of the world

May 18, 2023 11:20
Denis Balgaranov
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Spain / Economy and Finance / Green City

Catalonia’s 2.5 bln euro plan to make the region more drought-resistant

The aim is to lessen the region’s exclusive dependence on rains

May 17, 2023 17:56
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Ireland / Cork / Public Spaces

Cork City to co-create urban spaces with help from local communities

The authorities have just launched the 2023 Placemaking Fund and are looking for ideas to make Ireland’s second city greener

May 17, 2023 17:37
Denis Balgaranov
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Portugal / Politics and Reforms / Welfare and Health

Portugal legalizes euthanasia

This makes it the sixth country in the European Union to allow the end-of-life procedure

May 17, 2023 16:03
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov

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