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New coal curtain in Europe? Two-speed Europe? The new Visegrad+ platform set up today in Prague, want to prevent this

New coal curtain in Europe? Two-speed Europe? The new Visegrad+ platform set up today in Prague, want to prevent this

Thu, 05/23/2019 - 16:19

The share of renewables in all four Visegrad countries (Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia; also V4 countries) is one of the lowest in EU-28 and well below the EU average. Energy policy designers...

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Former MVM CEO sentenced to five years in jail; lost taxpayer money will be hard to recover

Wed, 04/10/2019 - 16:00

The former CEO of Hungary’s state energy giant, MVM, was sentenced to five years in jail at the end of February. István Kocsis and his accomplices also have to repay 2 billion Hungarian forints...

Cracks a little, oozes a little, but it’s ours - The Püspökszilágy Atomic Graveyard

Tue, 03/12/2019 - 15:41

Immense background radiation, high activity waste in the storages, toxic waste leakage into the ground water - such news got through to us from several sources apropos of the waste disposal facility...

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Investigative Journalists Team Up with Experts To Uncover Details About Nuclear Plants And Radioactive Waste Sites

Mon, 11/19/2018 - 12:16

Hungary is home to a number of nuclear facilities. While the Paks nuclear power plant is known to everybody, the nuclear disposal site in Püspökszilágy is less recognized. Besides, there are several...

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The Great ‘Revolvers’ – The Revolving Door Effect in European Energy and Climate Policy

Wed, 05/02/2018 - 14:23

A new study, launched today during the Climate Change Conference in Bonn, finds that revolving doors in Europe are a widespread phenomenon. Although the research is far from being exhaustive, only in...

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REBUS – 5th Project meeting and Transnational Exchange Event, Poland

Tue, 02/13/2018 - 16:48

The 5th Interregional Exchange Event of the REBUS project was organized on the 31st of January and 1st of February 2018 in Krakow, Poland, gathering representatives from 8 EU countries to jointly...

The environmental license for the Paks II project is unlawful and unfounded

Mon, 05/08/2017 - 17:14

Energiaklub and Greenpeace Hungary submitted an appeal against the environmental license of the Paks II project as the Environmental Impact Study (EIS) used as a basis for the license is missing key...

EC confirms: Paks II is a financially unviable investment

Fri, 03/10/2017 - 10:12

The recent decision of the European commission confirms that the planned Paks II nuclear investment involves state aid. This means that the government needs to devote hundreds, possibly that thousands...