Ministry of Environment

Parliament in North Macedonia approved a reshuffle of five ministers on Thursday night, which came after the ruling coalition, headed by Zoran Zaev's Social Democrats, received a wake-up call in recent presidential elections. In the vote, 65 of 120 MPs backed the reshuffle with 25 opposition MPs voting against.

Sofia Municipality will make a program for improvement of the air in Sofia for the period 2021 - 2016.

The financing of the project is under Operational Program "Environment" - BGN 400 000.

The 400 days of technocratic governance meant a year of paralysis to the Romanian people and a losing year to Romania as far as the environment was concerned, Environmental Minister Gratiela Gavrilescu told a meeting on Tuesday that took stock of her activity in office.

Access to the central building of the National Palace of Culture will be limited on April 10 and 11 (Tuesday and Wednesday). The measure is due to security concerns about high-end events in the calendar of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU.
 

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on Friday took over the chairmanship of the National Committee on International Humanitarian Law (CNDIU) from its predecessor at the committee's helm, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Foreign Ministry said in a release.

Secretary of State Dan Neculaescu will serve as CNDIU chairman.

Bucharest, Feb 2 /Agerpres/ - Romania will allocate this year 13 million lei for the Program for the development and optimization of the National Air Quality Monitoring Network, and 20 million lei to reduce the impact of pollution on the atmosphere, water and soil, including air quality monitoring, reads the substantiation note for the budget blueprint of the Environmental Fund and the Environm

Romania's forest administration on Tuesday released rare footage of a wolf pack caught by a surveillance camera in the Piatra Craiului National Park in the Southern Carpathians.

Romania's Ministry of Environment has vowed to investigate illegal logging in one of the country's protected national parks after environmentalists reported that 50 hectares of forest had vanished.

The European Commission has sent to Bulgaria and Cyprus a formal warning letter to initiate a criminal procedure for detected deficiencies in the implementation of the requirements of Directive 91/271 on urban wastewater treatment, according to BGNES.

Villagers with the support of NGOs in the highlands of Albania have gone to court to try to overturn a decision approving construction of two hydropower plants on the Valbona River. This is the first big environmental case that is supposed to be discussed in court.