Zoltan Simon

Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar’s blitz to dismantle former leader Viktor Orban’s governing system is triggering criticism from within his own camp, denting the ruling party’s popularity three months after a landslide election.

Hungary set up a powerful new agency that’s tasked with recovering misappropriated public funds, primarily those under Viktor Orban’s 16-year rule.

Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar warned that the country’s power market faced “critical” conditions from next week due to the planned temporary stoppage of its sole nuclear plant.

Hungary took a second of four nuclear blocs offline after the Danube River’s water level continued to drop, intensifying an energy crisis.

Hungary is hurtling toward a full shutdown of its sole nuclear power plant due to the record low levels of the Danube River, straining the country’s energy supplies and posing a major test for the economy and new Prime Minister Peter Magyar.

Hungary is set to shut down its only nuclear power plant for the first time after water levels in the Danube fell below the minimum needed to cool its four reactors.

Europe’s biggest rivers, vital arteries for the region’s heavy industries, are drying up after the region was seared by a series of heat waves.

(Bloomberg) -- Europe's biggest rivers, vital arteries for the region's heavy industries, are drying up after the region was seared by a series of heat waves.

Romania is shutting down its sole nuclear plant while Hungary is trying to salvage the operation of its own facility as a persistent drought curbs Danube river flows and hampers the cooling of reactors.

Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar cast doubt on the Russian-led expansion of the country’s sole nuclear power plant after the record-low level of the Danube river almost led to a full shutdown of the existing reactors.