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Война. Rat. War. Guerra.  The terrible meaning of this word cast a black shadow over the passing year: of suffering, death, violence and destruction. A war not only against Ukraine. Against humanity, freedom and reason. Against the values ​​of a united Europe that we set out to defend 25 years ago with the BlueLink civil action network, along with democracy and the environment.

Mayors of the municipalities of Belene, Nikopol and Gulyantsi and BlueLInk’s Chief Editor Pavel Antonov signed an Action Plan for Municipal and Regional Development through the Valorization of the Danube-related Cultural Heritage in the municipalities of Belene, Gulyantsi and  Nik

A regional conference on "The Creative Danube. Connectivity - the key to overcoming shrinking" was held on June 30 and July 1, 2022 in Vidin and Calafat. It is part of the events in Section 3 of the DANUrB+ project.

The project "Journalism and science for climate" aims to improve the insufficient and often misleading coverage of climate change mitigation in the media in Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Serbia. We implement it in partnership with Climateka (Bulgaria), Klima101 (Serbia), Masfel Fok (Hungary), InforClima (Romania) and with the support of the European Climate Initiative (EUKI).

Pavel Antonov, Managing Editor of BlueLink.net, live from a civic demonstration in front of the Embassy of Ukraine in Bulgaria for solidarity with the Ukrainian people against aggression: "I am in front of the Embassy of Ukraine in Sofia, where Ukraine, Russia and other European countries have expressed solidarity with the Ukrainians and the Ukrainian people against what

Bulgaria's Climate Change Mitigation Act is one of the first such acts in Europe; however, it requires improvements to meet today's European Union efforts to achieve carbon neutrality. A legal analysis of the Bulgarian legislation, prepared by BlueLink, outlines the changes required to properly implement the European Climate Law.

A pro-climate Europe

The state, represented by the National Assembly, the Ministry of Environment and Water and other institutions, is obliged to make more efforts to create a clear and effective regulatory framework and to introduce specific guidelines for taking climate factor into account in strategic environmental assessments (SEA) and environmental impact assessments (EIA).

Pro-democratic civil society actors have been under persistent pressure for the past several years in Russia and alarmingly many EU member states. Discourses denying European values and questioning democracy, social solidarity and equality principles, are aggressively imposed by mass media - largely captured and controlled by oligarchic circles in East and South European EU members.