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Kosovo lawmakers back deal to rent jail area to Denmark

Kosovo's parliament on Thursday approved an offer to lease 300 prison cells to Denmark to assist the Scandinavian country deal with overcrowded prisons. The cells, which will remain in a rebuilt jail, are meant to hold convicted bad guys from non-European Union countries who was because of be deported from Denmark after their sentences. When the offer was initially revealed in 2021, it prompted concerns over the treatment of detainees in Kosovo. Denmark said they would be dealt with the very same and the very same rules would apply as in prisons in the house. Kosovo is anticipated to receive...

Environment

Environmental research studies reveal Serbian lithium project is safe, Rio states

AngloAustralian miner Rio Tinto said on Thursday freshly published environmental research studies showed that its Serbia lithium task, which was stopped in 2022 after enormous demonstrations, would be safe for the environment. If executed, the $2.4 billion Jadar lithium task in Western Serbia might cover 90% of Europe's current lithium needs and assist to make the company a leading lithium producer. Lithium, mainly used in batteries for electrical cars ( EV) and mobile devices, is considered a crucial product by numerous major economies. On Thursday, Rio's Serbian unit revealed numerous environmental research studies performed over the past six and a...

Environment

Environmental research studies reveal Serbian lithium task is safe, Rio states

AngloAustralian miner Rio Tinto stated on Thursday recently published environmental studies showed that its Serbia lithium job, which was stopped in 2022 after massive protests, would be safe for the environment. If executed, the $2.4 billion Jadar lithium task in Western Serbia might cover 90% of Europe's existing lithium requirements and assist to make the company a leading lithium producer. Lithium, mainly utilized in batteries for electrical vehicles ( EV) and mobile phones, is considered a crucial product by lots of significant economies. On Thursday, Rio's Serbian unit made public a number of environmental studies carried out over the previous...

Environment

Leaders from Western Balkans, EU, satisfy to go over growth plan, reforms

The 6 Western Balkan countries, desiring join the European Union, fulfilled in Montenegro on Thursday to go over how to speed up required reforms, develop their own single market and ultimately sign up with the bloc. The countries - Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia - were guaranteed EU subscription years back however the accession procedure has actually slowed to a crawl, primarily because of unwillingness among the EU's 27 members and an absence of reforms needed to satisfy EU standards, including those worrying the economy, judiciary, legal systems, environmental defense and media liberties. The meeting in Montenegro...

Environment

In Serbian town, women combat to escape encroaching mine

Before dawn, 78yearold Vukosava Radivojevic prepared breakfast for her hubby then walked into her town in eastern Serbia to safeguard a barrier stopping trucks going into an openpit copper mine that homeowners say is contaminating local land and water. Radivojevic is one of two lots ladies who given that January took shifts day and night on a little bridge in Krivelj to object against the mine, run by a subsidiary of China's Zijin Mining, that controls the surrounding countryside and encroaches on their homes. While their spouses work, the ladies are combating to convince the company to relocate their village...

Carbon Emissions

Balkan countries eye hydrogen in rush to lower emissions

It never struck Baki Bajraktari that the presence of hydrogen in the Bulqize chrome mine where he operates in northeastern Albania could be considered great news: a colleague passed away in an explosion in 2011 when a group hit a gas pocket. Bajraktari altered his mind after a study released in peer evaluation journal Science in January exposed a reservoir containing between 5,000 and 50,000 lots of hydrogen locked below the mine that could ultimately help supply a response to minimizing emissions from the region. If they handle to get that hydrogen in pipelines that is a. huge financial investment...

Pollution

Seed-dropping drones seek to stop Kosovo's logging

A hovering drone drops linden and pine seeds wrapped in soil onto a barren hillside outside Kosovo's capital Pristina, part of an effort to reforest thousands of hectares lost to illegal logging and wildfires. Environmentalists say logging, likewise driven by demand for popular wood-fired stoves, is threatening wild animals such as brown bears, lynx, wild goats and roe deer whose populations are lessening in Kosovo. A study by non-profit organisation Sustainability Management Kosova (SLK), the small Balkan nation is losing more than 700 hectares of forest yearly. SLK has actually teamed up with Croatian company Job 02 to drop seeds...