Clear-cutting the forests: Hungary’s answer to the gas crisis

A letter made headlines in Hungary in August: the Ministry of the Interior instructed the school authorities to check whether school buildings could also be heated with wood if necessary. A prerequisite for this are suitable ovens and safe exhaust air chimneys. And of course firewood – but that could become scarce this year, because … Read more

Transfer: Coach Nagelsmann does not want to “step behind” against Lewandowski

Status: 07/31/2022 00:45 a.m Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann was forgiving after the departure of world footballer Robert Lewandowski, which was accompanied by many background noises. “He played outstandingly here for eight years – with an unbelievable number of goals. Even during my tenure, he scored almost 40 goals again. You don’t have to step down … Read more

East German textile industry is desperately looking for new skilled workers (nd-aktuell.de)

Managing Director Nico Teutsch is in the winding department of OTEX Textilveredlung GmbH. The company with 90 employees produces special yarns for medical products and technical textiles. Photo: dpa/Jan Woitas The textile companies in East Germany have an image problem. Heike Illing-Günther, Director of the Saxon Textile Research Institute in Chemnitz, notices this when she … Read more

Slight upswing for Saxony’s wind power (nd-aktuell.de)

Maintenance of a wind turbine in the district of Zwickau. The state government has agreed on conditions for new plants. Photo: dpa/dpa/Jan Woitas The “house war” in Saxony is over. For months, the coalition had been arguing bitterly about how the distance regulation for wind turbines should be designed in detail. In the 2019 government … Read more

Helena Truchla reports from the Czech Republic

I studied economics and political science in Brno, Berlin, Bordeaux and Edinburgh and work as a journalist for an online daily newspaper in Prague. I have been reporting as an Eastern blogger for MDR since 2021. My main topics are politics, energy and the environment, but I also like to write about social issues and … Read more

Health – Dresden – a particularly large number of tissue donations from Saxony in 2021 – health

Home Bless you Saxony Dresden Health – Dresden:In 2021 a particularly large number of tissue donations from Saxony January 1, 2022, 2:02 p.m. Open detailed view A living will for organ and tissue donations. Photo: Silvia Marks / dpa-tmn / illustration (Photo: dpa) Directly from the dpa news channel Dresden (dpa / sn) – corneas, … Read more