Hungary
How Quickly is Tourism Recovering From COVID-19?
Tourism was hit particularly hard by the pandemic, as lockdowns restricted people to travelling around their homes and neighbourhoods rather than around the world. But there are now signs that tourist numbers are starting to recover as limitations on movement…
Volkswagen’s European Factories Up To 95 Percent Powered By Renewables
In 2020. Volkswagen Group increased the share of renewables powering its European factories from 80 percent to 95 percent (year over year/YoY), and 10 of its factories became 100 percent renewably powered. The target is for them to reach 100 percent renewable…
The Ambassador of Hungary, Attilával Pintér: Energy Security is an Imperative Both For Hungary and Serbia
There are a lot of things Hungary has been doing in recent years that not only countries in the region but in the whole Europe can take as an example. Although there we should also include how successful they were…
Energy Efficiency in Hungary Begins at Home
Hungary could save 16 percent of its total energy consumption by retrofitting all existing residential and public buildings, a study commissioned by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and financed by the European Union’s (EU) Structural Reform Support…
Sun, Wind and Biomass for Clean Energy
Vojvodina has a great potential for energy production from renewable sources. How much these resources will be used, and to what extent industrial entities will be environmentally conscious, depends most on the state, precisely on the legislation, and its consistent…
Sweden Shutters Last Coal-Fired Generating Plant 2 Years Early
It’s good news when a nation makes plans to rid itself of electricity generated from burning coal. It’s even better news when it does so ahead of schedule. Swedish utility Stockholm Exergi announced some time ago it would shut down…
Migration v Climate: Europe’s New Political Divide
The crowd that gathered outside Hungary’s neo-gothic parliament building on Friday was loud, young and passionate. The latest round of global school climate strikes drew several thousand people in Budapest, including the city’s newly elected liberal mayor. They sang, chanted…