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Secretariat Welcomes European Parliament’s Resolutions on Enlargement Progress Reports
The European Parliament has recently adopted resolutions on the 2019-2020 Commission enlargement progress reports on Albania, Kosovo*, North Macedonia and Serbia. On the basis of the Secretariat’s expert input in the drafting phase, the Parliament stressed the need for continued…
North Macedonia’s Electricity Producer ESM Commits to Internal Carbon Pricing
North Macedonia’s state-owned electricity producer Elektrani na Severna Makedonija (ESM) has expressed its intent to design and implement an internal mechanism to price carbon emissions of its plants and operators by the end of 2021 with the support of the…
Bosnia and Herzegovina Takes Steps to Address Challenges Arising From Small Hydropower Development
This week’s adoption of the Declaration on River Protection by the National Assembly of , one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is a welcome step forward in addressing the challenges arising from hydropower development. It complements a…
Ministerial Council Adopts Measures Against Bosnia and Herzegovina and List of Priority Infrastructure Projects
Following the 18th Ministerial Council of the Energy Community, convened virtually under the Montenegro Presidency on 17 December 2020, the Ministerial Council by written procedure suspended certain rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the Energy Community Treaty on account of…
EBRD, EU and Donors Support SMEs and Green Homes in North Macedonia
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing two loans of €3.5 million combined to ProCredit Bank Skopje in order to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to reach EU standards and residential home-owners to make their buildings more…
Montenegro Plans to Ban the Construction of a Small Hydropower Plant in the Future
Prime Minister-designate Zdravko Krivokapić promised, in his exposition, that the new government would permanently ban the construction of small hydropower plants on watercourses in Montenegro and that all concession agreements would be revised and reviewed, as well as that amendments…
Land Consolidation Is the Missing Link for Farmers in North Macedonia
Coming from a family with a long tradition in agriculture, Ljupco Angelovski, a young family farmer in the village of Egri, North Macedonia, wanted to modernise his farm when he took it over from his parents. His land, however, was…