Serbia

Serbia offers to spend for stake in Hungary's Paks nuclear power plant

Serbia offered to pay Hungary for approximately 10% of ownership in its Paks nuclear power plant as it looks for to diversify its energy products, President Aleksandar Vucic stated on Thursday. I have actually asked Prime Minister (Viktor) Orban and we are ready to ... pay full price for 5% or 10% of ownership in the Paks nuclear reactor, Vucic told Serbian press reporters in Budapest. He said the Hungarian side did not instantly react to his demand. Vucic did not specify whether Serbia desires a stake in Hungary's existing Paks four-reactor nuclear reactor or the Paks 2 which is

Mining

Serbia's parliament arguments restriction on lithium mining

Wine wins, crops lose, as farmers come to grips with record Balkans heat

R astislav Pucovski held a fistful of soy beans shriveled to the size of peppercorns on his farmland in northern Serbia where the soil, dried to dust by dry spell, swirled in the wind. A brief shower, the very first in over 40 days, used no relief. The surrounding fields, near the town of Backi Petrovac, stayed parched, the corn and soy crops withered. Whatever is bone dry, said Pucovski, 48, as he surveilled his land this week. I do not know how we will offer it. Serbia, like much of the Balkans, experienced its hottest summer season on record,

Mineral Resources

Ratings in central Serbia rally against Rio Tinto's lithium job

Balkans' new love for air conditioning strains grid as temperatures soar

Raba Peci never ever desired cooling the cold air made individuals sick, she thought. Then this year a string of heatwaves in her town of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo lastly changed her mind. This summer season is very hot and intolerable and that's why we chosen to buy one now, she said as she prepared Turkish coffee for two employees who were installing a new system in her home. Her next door neighbour currently had two put in. Numerous in the Balkans area of main Europe have long mistrusted synthetic cooling techniques. In some locations, far from the traveler locations,

Mineral Resources

Rio Tinto's Serbia lithium job might take two years to approve, minister states

It could take Rio Tinto 2 years to obtain the authorizations it needs to begin building on its Jadar lithium job in Serbia, the nation's energy minister stated on Friday, as ecologists strategy fresh protests over the mine. Last month, Serbia renewed Rio's licence to establish what would be Europe's biggest lithium mine in the western Jadar region, two years after the previous government halted the licensing process due to mad protests by ecological groups. In order to move towards production at the site, the Australian mining group now needs to secure approvals which will hinge on its ecological impact

Serbian villagers spark protest motion against prepared lithium mine