a green label refused by Austria, the drought in Portugal and a Roman statuette returned to France

Austria positions itself against the green label for nuclear power and gas. The European Commission has just granted the green label to nuclear and gas, transition energies which it considers essential to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, to the great displeasure of Austria, which has announced that it wants to file a complaint. The decision can still be blocked if 20 member states request it, or if the European Parliament opposes it.

In Portugal, the drought is already raging. For 20 years, there have never been so many regions affected in the middle of winter. On five dams, the hydraulic power stations are on the verge of asphyxiation, reducing the production of electricity. “What worries me is that we are barely at 9 billion cubic meters, when there should be almost double“, Explain Luis Dolhao, head of the VIGIA irrigation association. Irrigation bans have already been decreed.

Direction the Netherlands: a Roman statuette was returned to France by a Dutchman, Arthur Brand, detective and expert in antiquities. He is called the Sherlock Holmes of antiquities. His latest expertise was conducted on a first-century bronze Bacchus stolen 50 years ago in Burgundy. He will thus give it to the director of the museum concerned, who no longer believed in it.