Bulgaria & Romania s plans for two new Danube hydropower plants raise environmental, nuclear fears euronews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from euronews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Romania and Bulgaria are hoping to soon start building two new hydropower plants on the Danube River despite growing concerns over their impact on the environment and nuclear safety.
2023 should see Romania into the Schengen space, says head of state Klaus Iohannis
Speaking on Tuesday to ambassadors in Bucharest, President Klaus Iohannis said that Romania preserves its foreign policy coordinates in 2023, mainly to strengthen Romania s place and role in NATO and the EU, at the same time fortifying its strategic alliance with the US. The head of state specified that Romania will continue supporting the consolidation of NATO s eastern flank, promoting the strategic importance of the Black Sea, and the open door policy of the alliance. He said that major diplomatic resources would be reallocated to including Romania into the Schengen space, while at the same time maintaining support for neighboring Ukraine. Speaking about the free circulation space, the president recalled the success of lifting the monitoring mechanism in 2022, with a view to Schengen inclusion. This is considering that Romania has met all criteria, underlined in a telephone conversation that Iohann
Bulgaria hopes the two new power plants – to be jointly operated by the two neighbouring states – will boost its energy independence and be up and running with five or six years.