Only a portion of a barge’s capacity can now be carried due to extremely low water levels in Europe. The remaining cargo must be transferred mostly on road, a riskier and more costly mode of transport.

Another protest organised by the opposition failed the other day, with only about ten per cent of those who said would attend showing up.

If one spends some time in Hungary, one may come to the opinion that the Serbs a ‘stubborn’ and ‘rather barbaric people’. This kind of anti-Serbian language dominated contemporary British reports.