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said furniture classics from the group. Ikea stores in Belgium, Finland, France, Great Britain, Israel, Italy, Austria, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Hungary were also affected. Some of the last remaining virgin forests in Europe can be found in Romania. Ikea should not “destroy these for furniture,” said Greenpeace forest expert Gesche Jürgens. "Old forests are for...
Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty
(INES 3). No one was injured in this accident. However, the measuring probes in the area registered noble gas contamination above the limit values... Nuclear power plantsPlag Paks_(Hungary) In 2003, a serious accident of INES level 2 occurred at reactor 3, in which several fuel elements were damaged during cleaning and radioactive gas escaped. No one was hurt, but the...
Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out
to restart a nuclear program, officially to phase out coal. The first of six reactors is scheduled to go online in 2033, a completely unrealistic schedule according to experts. Two additional Russian-designed reactor units are to be built in Hungary, and Romania is planning a mini-nuclear power plant using US technology. Sweden operates a total of six reactors, which together account for around 30 percent...
"The Bundestag wants to make the Federal Constitutional Court more secure with a constitutional change," Buschmann told the newspapers of the Funke media group. He referred to attempts in Poland, Hungary and Israel to restrict the independence of the constitutional courts. There is a lot to be said for securing the current structure of the Federal Constitutional Court in the Basic Law said Buschmann...
to stop it, including through a United Nations General Assembly resolution supported by the United States. The second crisis was the uprising against Soviet rule in Hungary in 1956. Although Eisenhower sympathized with the uprising, he wisely kept the United States out of Hungary, thereby avoiding a dangerous military confrontation with the Soviet Union. Eisenhower...
occasionally in natural forest areas. Growing them in plantations is usually not possible and the origin of the wood is often unclear. The suspicion: Many come from illegal logging... * EU states | Hungary | Orbán "bribe money" scandal Orbán makes approval of Ukraine aid dependent on the release of all EU funds for Hungary In order to make aid payments to Ukraine, the 27 EU states must...
Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy
is present. According to the Court of Auditors, those responsible could have “easily bought the machine guns later” and procured other more urgent equipment more quickly... * Hungary | Life extension Hungary wants to extend the life of the Paks nuclear power plant by 20 years The operator of the Paks nuclear power plant in Hungary has informed the European Union of the country's intention to...
As Foreign Minister, she ignored inquiries for months about the founder of the disclosure platform WikiLeaks, who had been imprisoned in London for over four years... * Siemens Energy | Rosatom | France | Hungary Joe Kaeser defends nuclear power deals with Rosatom in Hungary Siemens Energy will not stop deals with Russia's state-owned company Rosatom. After the gas turbine dispute with Gazprom, a...
Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism
instrumentalized. Far beyond the current events in Eastern Europe, a look at a long series of international political movements, parties and regimes - from Hungary and Belarus to Brazil and Turkey to the Philippines and India, but also in established democracies such as the USA, France, Italy, Austria and the Scandinavian countries – a...
Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread
even at the top of the state. At the same time, more or less authoritarian political systems have developed in some EU states over the last two decades, especially in Poland and Hungary. Right-wing extremist parties are on the rise in almost all countries on the continent. The governments and parliamentarians are criticized for being corrupt while protecting the interests and needs of the...
2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events
(INES 3). No one was injured in this accident. However, the measuring probes in the area registered noble gas contamination above the limit values... Nuclear power plantsPlag Paks_(Hungary) In 2003, a serious accident of INES level 2 occurred at reactor 3, in which several fuel elements were damaged during cleaning and radioactive gas escaped. No one was hurt, but the...
in the sense described above is in decline in its traditional centers. In Europe, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's racist "illiberal democracy" in Hungary is troubling the European Union, as well as Poland's ruling Law and Justice party and other organizations that share its deeply authoritarian tendencies. Recently Orban hosted a...
injured in this accident. However, the measuring probes in the area registered noble gas levels above the limit values. Nuclear power plantsPlag https://atomkrafteplag.fandom.com/de/wiki/Paks_(Hungary)... A report from the IAEA said that they initially found increased radiation in a cleaning basin near the reactor core and opened the cleaning system. "It turned out,...
Newsletter XIV 2023 - April 2-8 - News+ Wars and School Massacres: The Cancer of Dehumanization
Lingen | Rosatom | Framatomes | Advanced Nuclear Fuels Hesitant farewell to Russian atoms The Czech Republic will no longer use nuclear power plant fuel from Russia, Slovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria will continue to use them. A subsidiary of the Russian state-owned company Rosatom wants to produce fuel rods for Eastern Europe in Lower Saxony in the future. [...] How strong Russia's market power is in the area...
"To strengthen European cooperation in the field of nuclear energy." [...] The eleven signatories include Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. .. * France | Global warming | Cooling water France's environment minister is fatalistic While France was already...
is designed to withstand massive earth movements. The past quake did not cause any damage to the building, the place in question did not experience any powerful earthquakes... * France | Hungary | Rosatom sanctions EU Commission abandons plans for sanctions against the Russian nuclear sector The Russian state-owned company Rosatom will probably not be included in the new sanctions package....
Newsletter LII 2022 - December 26-31 - News+ Putin and Lavrov should have gone before the UN
How else should one understand a "withdrawal behind the borders of 1997", i.e. to a status quo in which all the countries of the former Eastern Bloc were not yet NATO members: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro and North Macedonia. That would indeed be an absurd claim. Especially since the suggestions expressly...
Newsletter XLIII 2022 - October 28th to 31st - News+ Climate protection: It's not enough
Example. But that is precisely why it is so astonishing that there are such strong similarities in so many places in the world: anti-liberalism is spreading. These are anti-liberal democracies - for example in the USA, Hungary and Russia - but they lack a unified ideology. Donald Trump, Viktor Orbán, Vladimir Putin are not ideologically close in the true sense...
Merkel and former Economics Minister Altmeier, whose policy of thwarting the expansion of renewable energies is largely responsible for the energy chaos of the last few years. ** August 26 Hungary | Russia | Rosatom Hungary announces start of construction of Paks II nuclear power plant. The 12,5 billion euro project will be largely financed by a loan from Russia. * Climate change...
Newsletter XXII 2022 - May 27th to 31st - News+ The nuclear lobby is stepping on the gas again
“We make the fight against climate change much easier,” says Oliver Geden. Nevertheless, he recommends limiting its use politically. * Russia | Rosatom | EU Commission | France | Hungary Why Europe continues to cooperate with Rosatom Sanctions against Russia's nuclear industry cannot gain a majority. Countries like France and Hungary continue to work with the Russian state-owned company...