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Italy’s Recovery plan might allocate €10 billion of EU funding to tax credits that favor fossil gas heating systems in buildings.

Poland foresees the massive expansion of fossil gas use. Despite the fact that fossil gas has no future in Europe, Poland aims to become a blueprint for fossil fuel dependency and fund its gas [...]

Big polluters will receive a major share of the Czech Modernisation Fund, thereby delaying the transformation towards a more decentralised and democratised energy system.

The Just Transition Fund is supposed to support local businesses in carbon intensive regions. In Czechia, a network of political-industrial elites might instead derail EU funding to the benefit [...]

Flanders region plans to spend €93 million of Recovery money on new public transport infrastructure. At a first glance, this looks like a good opportunity; but in reality part of this budget will [...]

The European Regional Development Fund might finance the construction of a road cutting through a nature park, threatening the habitat of the Brown Bear, a protected species.

The Kresna Gorge has the richest biodiversity in Bulgaria. Despite the existence of better alternatives, an EU-funded motorway, that might pass through it, puts this unique biodiversity and local [...]

Agri-food industry might receive lots of Recovery funding for a project which will do little to make industrial agriculture more sustainable. Instead, this money should be used to promote organic [...]

Bulgaria plans to use Recovery funds for switching from coal to gas. This risks increasing fossil gas dependency for households, and making energy transition very expensive.

EU funding for a waste incineration plant condemns the Bulgarian capital to burn precious resources for the next 3 decades.