In the midst of an arid summer that set heat records across Europe, the continent’s rivers are evaporating.
The Rhine a pillar of the German, Dutch and Swiss economies for centuries is set to become virtually impassable at a key waypoint later this week, stymieing vast flows of diesel and coal. The Danube, which snakes its way 2,900km through central Europe to the Black Sea, is gummed up too, hampering grain and other trade.
Across Europe, transport is just one of the elements of river-based commerce that has been upended by climate change. France’s power crisis has worsened because the
At the Belgrade Fair the 46th International Building Trade Fair was opened, under the patronage of the Ministry of Construction, Traffic & Infrastructure of the Republic of Serbia.
The war in Ukraine provides Belgrade with an opportunity to continue and boost its policy of replacing Russia with China as Serbia’s primary non-Western partner.
Serbian Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Tomislav Momirovic on Friday announced Serbia planned to build 7,000 km of sewage networks and over 250 wastewater treatment plants in the next five years, and added that the investment would be worth 4 bln euros.
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