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Record drought and heatwave bring energy emergency to Eastern Europe

Record drought and heatwave bring energy emergency to Eastern Europe
France 24 Tuesday 04 August 2026, 10:49 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read
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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Record drought and heatwave bring energy emergency to Eastern Europe Europe Issued on: Share Numerous governments across Central and Eastern Europe are taking steps to conserve electricity and avert an energy crisis amid record low water levels on the Danube River. In Hungary, the country's only nuclear plant provides electricity for half the country - but is now being shut down as there is not enough water to cool its reactors down.
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