CIVIC LANE Türkiye's first renewable-energy vocational high school reached the global final of the World's Best School Prizes in the environmental-action category. The Ankara school was selected among ten finalists and combines technical education with green-energy skills. Its success highlights the growing demand for workers who can build and maintain low-carbon technologies. The broader question is how school systems should divide attention among academic knowledge, vocational skills, digital skills and climate-related training. Ranking those priorities can reveal what people expect education to deliver for the green economy.

CIVIC LANE Türkiye's Family and Social Services Ministry said free family counselling is available across all 81 provinces through local services and the e-government system. The programme focuses on communication, problem solving and support before family conflicts become more severe. Easy access to counselling can affect relationships, child welfare and pressure on other public services. The policy debate is whether governments should expand preventive family support or leave more responsibility to private and community providers. The story offers a direct way to test which type of support people would actually use or prioritize.

CIVIC LANE Around 5,000 electricity customers in north-eastern Poland were still without power on August 23 after severe storms. The updated figure showed that infrastructure recovery continued even after the worst weather had passed. Extended outages can disrupt households, businesses, communications and essential services. The practical debate is how much societies should spend in advance to make grids more resilient to extreme weather. Asking people to rank resilience measures turns a weather story into a concrete infrastructure choice.

CIVIC LANE Spain joined Germany, Italy, Austria, Poland and Portugal in pressing for an EU-level windfall tax on oil-company profits. The countries argue that unusually high energy-sector margins during the current price shock justify a common response, while any EU tax would face difficult political and legal negotiations. Such a levy could raise revenue but might also affect investment incentives and energy-market behavior. The debate is not only whether to tax profits, but what governments should do with the money if they collect it. Ranking the possible uses exposes the public's real priorities behind the headline.

Italy extended a 17-cent-per-litre diesel tax discount through August 26 as fuel prices remained above two euros per litre. The government used additional VAT revenue to finance the short extension while opposition figures called for stronger measures such as taxing energy windfall profits. Fuel costs affect commuters, freight, tourism and household budgets almost immediately. The disagreement is whether governments should prioritize temporary price relief, targeted aid or structural energy measures. The issue therefore lends itself to a choice among competing responses to high fuel prices.