Watch: Dredging Danube To Become A Political & Environmental Dispute

  • 18 Feb 2021 9:38 AM
Watch: Dredging Danube To Become A Political & Environmental Dispute
"Crossing ten countries and connecting Central and Eastern Europe, the River Danube is one of Europe's most important waterways.

But plans for making it deeper to allow fully-laden cargo ships to pass year-round, have become a political and environmental dispute in Hungary."

Source:
Euronews (in English)


MTI Photo: István Ruzsa

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