President Bujar Nishani set Tuesday December 22 as the day when a historic referendum on trash imports will be held, the first such grassroots initiative in Albania.The referendum request had been spearheaded by a group of activists, environmentalists and intellectuals, who collected more than 64,000 signatures in order to annul …

Angry employees of the Oltchim chemical company rallied in Bucharest demanding payment of their overdue wages and urging the government to step in and save the plant.Around 1,000 workers at Romania’s ailing Oltchim plant staged a protest on Tuesday in front of the government building in Bucharest, demonstrating against unpaid …

The two-day Balkan Infrastructure and Construction Summit aims to inform foreign investors of business opportunities in the region.The first Balkans Infrastructure and Construction Summit will be held in Vienna on May 29 and 30. The organisers of the event, the International Research Networks, IRN, stated that the high-profile forum aims …