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July 25, 2025

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Belgrade in focus: challenges and solutions for sustainable urban development

Author: Ivan Gazdić, Attorney at Law and Partner at Petrikić & Partneri AOD in cooperation with CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz For many years, Belgrade has struggled with long-standing urban, infrastructural and environmental challenges that have impeded its progress towards sustainable development in accordance with the standards of contemporary European cities. The main obstacles to Belgrade’s urban advancement include poorly […]

July 22, 2025

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Ninth Energy Community Summer School gathers 40 participants in Montenegro from 28 countries

The ninth Energy Community Summer School has kicked off in Montenegro, gathering 40 participants from 28 countries. On July 19, forty young professionals and researchers from 28 countries convened at the Faculty of Maritime Studies in Kotor, Montenegro, to dive deep into the pressing technical, political, and economic issues driving the energy transition, according to […]

July 21, 2025

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Energy Community marks 20th anniversary as integration pillar for Southeastern Europe

The Energy Community Ministerial Council held its annual informal meeting in Athens, where the organization was founded twenty years ago. No contracting party is expected to meet the criteria for exemption from the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) in the electricity sector – the European Union is due to start charging the CO2 tax on […]

June 19, 2025

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Just Transition Young Voices Award: Empowering youth champions in the clean energy transition

In a celebration of youth-led climate action, the Energy Community Secretariat, together with Bankwatch, CAN Europe, RYCO, and CLEW, has launched the Just Transition Young Voices Award, spotlighting the importance of young people’s voices in shaping a just, equitable, and sustainable energy future. Balkan Green Energy News is an official media partner of the initiative. […]

June 3, 2025

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Western Balkans urged to step up just transition measures

In its new guidelines for the just transition, the Energy Community Secretariat highlighted the lack of policies and measures in its contracting parties in the Western Balkans. The concept implies incorporating a people-centred and regionally tailored approach, in national energy and climate planning, to phasing out fossil fuels while providing targeted support to those most […]

May 30, 2025

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Western Balkans power markets: hope for coupling with EU, concerns about CBAM

Energy Community contracting parties are doing their best to meet the challenging requirements and use the opportunity to couple their electricity markets with the European Union in Q4 2026 or Q1 2027. Apart from other benefits, coupling could represent a strong incentive for investment in renewables. However, the introduction of CBAM could be a step […]

May 27, 2025

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Clock is ticking for introducing carbon tax in Western Balkans, many ambiguities still remain

From January 1st, 2026, Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) will be effective in the Western Balkans. While the countries are still deciding on the carbon pricing model, the energy intensive industry is advocating for introducing taxation to protect the domestic market from the flood of goods that will not be competitive on the EU market. […]

May 15, 2025

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Belgrade Energy Forum 2025 – energy market reforms accelerate integration into EU

Electricity market coupling with neighbors in the European Union is a major factor in the EU integration of Energy Community contracting parties and the Western Balkans, alongside deeper coordination within the region, the establishment of energy interconnections, investments in renewables and progress in carbon pricing, top officials pointed out at the opening of Belgrade Energy […]

May 13, 2025

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Everything is ready for Belgrade Energy Forum 2025 – welcome!

Everything is ready for the third Belgrade Energy Forum – BEF 2025. On May 14 and 15, the conference will gather four hundred participants from more then 30 countries from the region, Europe, and beyond. Participants of the Belgrade Energy Forum 2025 (BEF 2025) will have the opportunity to hear from speakers from the European […]

May 8, 2025

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Belgrade Energy Forum 2025 – top delegations coming from EU, Southeast European countries

Final preparations are underway for the third Belgrade Energy Forum, BEF 2025. Energy Community Secretariat Director Artur Lorkowski and Serbian Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Đedović Handanović will open the event. One of the key speakers is Director Christian Zinglersen of the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER). The ministerial panel […]

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