The Rock of Starvation has been portent of doom in Hungary for centuries, only appearing when the Danube falls low enough to halt mills, bringing famine. But what this summer’s extremely low water level revealed was not just the Danube’s bed, but also the lack of transparency of the Péter Magyar government.
The closure of Unit 2 of the Cernavodă power plant will lead to a nuclear disaster like Chernobyl or Fukushima, according to a false narrative viralized in Romania by sovereignists and conspiracy theorists.