„Money talks“ is the 6th annual shadow progress report by Serbia-based Coalition 27, group of dozen most prominent civil society organizations committed to monitoring and reporting on the country’s progress in preparations for EU membership talks on the environment and climate change – topics covered by Chapter 27 of the EU accession negotiations.

The report notes slow progress across the board and illustrates this through the prism of financing for the environment, which is both far below what is needed and, worse still, chronically underspent, indicating a persistent lack of capacities at both the level of the national government as well as local authorities across the country.

Full shadow report money talks can be downloaded here.