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South-eastern Europe faces heatwave energy crunch as Romania detonates Danube rock to increase water flow – as it happened

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Source published: 3 Aug 2026, 17:00 CEST Publication time from the source RSS/feed

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South-eastern Europe faces heatwave energy crunch as Romania detonates Danube rock to increase water flow – as it happened

Explosives used to move a large rock and let more water flow to cool nuclear power plant More must be done ⁠to strengthen the European Union’s borders at critical points, ⁠European Commission president ⁠Ursula ​von der Leyen told Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez ⁠in a letter. In the carefully-calibrated letter, first reported by Reuters and a number of Spanish media, von der Leyen was quoted as congratulating Spain for swiftly handling the incident and “successfully preventing” the onward migration to mainland Spain and the EU. Continue reading...

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3 Aug 2026, 17:00 CEST
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Explosives used to move a large rock and let more water flow to cool nuclear power plant More must be done ⁠to strengthen the European Union’s borders at critical points, ⁠European Commission president ⁠Ursula ​von der Leyen told Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez ⁠in a letter. In the carefully-calibrated letter, first reported by Reuters and a number of Spanish media, von der Leyen was quoted as congratulating Spain for swiftly handling the incident and “successfully preventing” the onward migration to mainland Spain and the EU. Continue reading...

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Explosives used to move a large rock and let more water flow to cool nuclear power plant More must be done ⁠to strengthen the European Union’s borders at critical points, ⁠European Commission president ⁠Ursula ​von der Leyen told Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez ⁠in a letter. In the carefully-calibrated letter, first reported by Reuters and a number of Spanish media, von der Leyen was quoted as congratulating Spain for swiftly handling the incident and “successfully preventing” the onward migration to mainland ...