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From Waste to Waves of Change: Couple Leads 20,000 Volunteers to Clean Vasai Beach in Mumbai, Recycle Plastic into Products
The Logical Indian
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July 4, 2025
Since 2017, Lisbon Ferrao and his wife Zsuzsanna Salda have led Vasai Beach Cleaners, a volunteer-driven group dedicated to removing plastic and waste from the Vasai coastline near Mumbai. With over 20,000 volunteers participating, they have...
Revealing the Untapped Biodiversity Within Europe’s Villages
Bioengineer.org
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July 4, 2025
A groundbreaking new study has shed light on the complex interplay between biodiversity and human well-being in European villages, revealing nuanced trade-offs and synergies shaped by landscape context and urban proximity. Despite their...
Low water levels on Danube disrupt shipping as heatwave hits Hungary
KDAL - Minnesota
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Unusually low water levels on the Danube river in Hungary are affecting shipping, agriculture, and local ecosystems along Europe’s second-longest river, which serves as a key transport route across the continent. Temperatures...
Apollo Tyres earns ISCC+ sustainability certification for Hungary facility
Tire Technology International
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July 4, 2025
Apollo Tyres’ facility in Hungary has been awarded the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification Plus (ISCC+) certification. The ISCC+ certification recognizes that Apollo Tyres monitors and verifies sustainability throughout its...
PM's Political Director: We won't let Ukraine ruin Hungarian farmers
About Hungary
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July 4, 2025
Balazs Orbán, the prime minister's political director, said on Facebook on Thursday that Ukraine wants "to ruin Hungarian farmers", adding: "We won't let them!" According to MTi, Orbán said negotiations between Ukraine and the European Commission...
Turnover of Legal Gambling Market in Hungary Increases
European Gaming
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July 4, 2025
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Regulated Activities Supervisory Authority (SZTFH) has announced that the turnover of the legal gambling market in Hungary has increased. The SZTFH and its predecessor have been blocking illegal gambling websites since...
EU invests €2.8 billion in 94 transport projects to boost sustainable, connected mobility across Europe
Associated Press of Pakistan
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July 4, 2025
- Advertisement - - Advertisement - - Advertisement - BRUSSELS, July 04 (WAM/APP) : The European Commission selected 94 transport projects to receive nearly €2.8 billion in EU grants under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). By modernising...
Budapest Convention – Fiji leads Pacific in global cybercrime fight
The Fiji Times
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July 3, 2025
FIJI has become the first Pacific country, and the 50th globally, to sign the Second Additional Protocol to the Budapest Convention against Cybercrime, demonstrating its commitment to global cybersecurity and the fight against cybercrime. Fiji’s...
Budapest’s pride parade was a massive victory for European values
Taipei Times
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July 2, 2025
Trailing in the polls, Hungary’s prime minister resorted to his polarizing playbook by attempting to impose a ban. Mass defiance suggests a shift in the political zeitgeist. In late 1980s Hungary, courageous environmental protests against an...
Boiling in Brussels: Climate fights and Orbán vs. Pride
Politico Europe
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July 4, 2025
Europe baked, the Atomium shut early — and Brussels finally unveiled its long-delayed climate target. Host Sarah Wheaton speaks with POLITICO Climate Reporter Louise Guillot, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Nick Vinocur and EU Politics...
Sri Lanka secures € 30 m debt relief deal with Hungary
Daily FT
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Sri Lanka has taken another key step in its ongoing external debt restructuring process, signing a bilateral agreement with Hungarian Export Credit Insurance PLC to reschedule outstanding loans valued at around € 30 million (approximately Rs. 10.5...
Reimagining the university for a more sustainable world
University World News
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GLOBAL “The greatest potential of the Sustainable Development Goals framework is to help us reimagine what the university does. The big risk is the SDGs’ superficial adoption by higher education,” Harvard education professor Fernando Reimers told...
Hungarian and Italian performers confirmed for 20th Hiiu Folk festival this July
ERR
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July 2, 2025
The Hiiu Folk festival is set to take place for the 20th time from July 11 to 13, with a range of artists from Estonia and abroad all set to perform. "This year's Hiiu Folk is an anniversary festival and we have invited such worthy and esteemed...
Hungarian melon season delayed, 175,000 tons forecast
Fresh Plaza
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July 2, 2025
The cool spring has postponed the Hungarian melon season, but the market will still see an influx of quality melons and cantaloupes. According to a joint press event by the National Chamber of Agriculture, the Hungarian Vegetable and Fruit...
First food outlet opened in Budapest, where you can save up to 70% of your money
Daily News Hungary
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July 3, 2025
The country’s first food outlet has opened in Budapest’s Récsei Centre. The Príma Outlet, operated by Vörösvár Ltd., a member of the Breier Group, offers products with discounts of up to 70%. Spanning over 100 square metres, the store welcomes...
Bob Kustra: Donald Trump’s ethnic cleansing is proof of man’s inhumanity to man
Chicago Tribune - Illinois
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July 6, 2025
One of the great mysteries of my family life is what possessed two teenage sisters at the turn of the 20th century to leave home in Rzeszow, Poland, and head for a new life in America. I’m sure the poverty of the peasantry under the...
INPRO School in Hungary Strengthens Strategic Planning Capacities
IAEA
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The IAEA’s International Project on Innovative Reactors and Fuel Cycles continued its work to support the long-term sustainability of nuclear power at a workshop in Hungary earlier this month. The workshop on Strategic Planning for Sustainable...
Slovak opposition accuses government of siding with Hungary in ending Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros dispute
BNE Intellinews
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Slovak opposition parties accused the left-right cabinet of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico of securing favourable terms for Hungary by bringing the long-standing Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros hydroelectric power plant (HPP) System dispute to an end. “I...
Water crisis in Hungary: Government pushes emergency measures as rivers hit record lows
Daily News Hungary
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July 3, 2025
The government is not standing idly by during the current drought resulting from “an unprecedented heat wave”, the minister of agriculture said on the sidelines of a farmer’s forum in Mórahalom, in southern Hungary, on Wednesday. István Nagy told...
European support for climate action and energy independence, Eurobarometer shows
Open Access Government
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July 3, 2025
The findings reveal widespread public support across the EU for climate neutrality, renewable energy, and energy independence, a backing that is matched by individual efforts and growing awareness of environmental threats. Strong support for...