The canal project is not able to achieve its goal of connecting the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea and the North Sea via inland navigation. As the project is enormously costly and would lead to huge environmental damage, we ask the European Commission to form its own independent opinion. The affected countries – the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Austria …

The last months have seen the return of the long-standing dispute between the supporters of intervention into the natural processes and human management in the Białowieża Forest, and the advocates of extending its protection, arguing that it is a unique forest and an invaluable treasure of nature. We demand maintaining the current restrictions on forest management, and hence we are …