News and Topical Issue. The European Green Deal, an ambitious European plan for a green transition of European Union policies, affects many areas, building and renovating being one of them. The Slovak association Buildings for the Future, or Budovy pre budúcnosť, is trying to shape public policies by promoting a high quality of construction and renovation of buildings. Listen to our interview with its director, Katarína Nikodemová. The second day of the second week of the second month marks Safer Internet Day. On that occasion we discussed the possibilities of data protection in the Age of the Internet with a cyber-security specialist Chris Wilke. How green are the electoral programmes of Slovak political parties before the parliamentary elections on 29 February? You will find out in the interview with the Slovak scientist and environmentalist Mikuláš Huba and in a study conducted by Slovak environmental initiatives which we discussed with one of its initiators and a campaign coordinator for Greenpeace Slovakia Radek Kubala. At the end, we will evaluate a climate and energy oriented analysis conducted by Euractiv.sk with it's author Pavol Szalai.