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[00:02:50] of hello and
[00:02:54] welcome to TRT World, from record breaking heat waves and
[00:02:58] of wildfires that threaten... communities across Europe and the Balkans
[00:03:02] to Kosovo becoming the center
[00:03:04] of the global music scene through the Sunny Hill festival, we bring you the
[00:03:08] stories shaping the region. I'm Najam Muftic and this is across the
[00:03:13] in Balcans.
[00:03:21] of
[00:03:28] High temperatures and wild. fires have hit Europe, near
[00:03:32] Athens and on several islands, flames have threatened communities
[00:03:36] of and vast areas of land. Meanwhile, the Danube, Europe's
[00:03:39] second longest river, has fallen to record low levels,
[00:03:43] putting regional power plants and local economies at risk.
[00:03:47] Adam Mamunu has more. This
[00:03:51] scene of horses fleeing wildfires in northwestern Greece is
[00:03:54] a vivid
[00:03:55] of representation of an
[00:03:56] of environmental crisis. Scientists have warned Europa.
[00:04:01] Europe is getting hotter, leading to wildfires that have scorched
[00:04:05] thousands of square kilometers of land and caused the
[00:04:08] evacuations of hundreds of thousands of
[00:04:11] people. Strong winds continue to hamper
[00:04:15] fire fighting efforts across Western Atica, northwest of Athens
[00:04:18] and on the islands
[00:04:20] of the Peliponese,
[00:04:21] of Parros and Nexos, though conditions are finally showing signs
[00:04:25] of easing. The
[00:04:26] in crisis has claimed to the lives of
[00:04:28] of five fire
[00:04:29] of fighters. including two crew members who
[00:04:32] in died
[00:04:32] in a mid-air helicopter collision west of
[00:04:34] Athens. After record
[00:04:37] of breaking heat waves and little rain. Several
[00:04:40] of countries, including Spain, Italy and Portugal, have collectively
[00:04:43] battled wildfires that exceed annual
[00:04:47] of averages. Southwest
[00:04:48] of France
[00:04:48] of suffered one
[00:04:49] of the largest forest fires since World War II.
[00:04:53] Following major fire incident in England, authorities
[00:04:56] announced that half of England and Wales had entered Dr.
[00:05:00] We've always had heat waves in this country and what is notable
[00:05:04] here is the sustained high temperatures and right now we're
[00:05:08] also
[00:05:08] in a very
[00:05:09] of dry of period
[00:05:10] of so top of those hot temperatures we've also... got drough to consider
[00:05:14] and wildfire risk and we flipped into this kind of
[00:05:17] scenario now where we are living through temperatures that are making us very
[00:05:21] uncomfortable when we had that red warning for heat out
[00:05:25] that meant that even healthy people were in trouble you know because
[00:05:29] the the hot temperatures that that we had and that is new and that
[00:05:33] is directly because of climate change and because we've been
[00:05:37] burning fossil fuels and putting that into our
[00:05:39] atmosphere.
[00:05:44] 'This
[00:05:45] is Europe's second largest river,
[00:05:47] the Danube.
[00:05:51] It crosses 10 countries, including Balkan countries,
[00:05:55] Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Moldova,
[00:05:58] Hungary and Romania. Some sections are so shallow that they can be
[00:06:02] crossed on foot, and it has exposed relics of
[00:06:05] bygone errors. This includes the remains of a Nazi warship
[00:06:09] that emerged on the Serbian side
[00:06:12] the river'. px of World War II
[00:06:14] Nazi warships in Bulgaria, and these remains of what is
[00:06:17] believed to
[00:06:18] be ancient mammoth in northern Bulgaria. At the Viden
[00:06:22] Califat Bridge, connecting Bulgaria and Romania, Bulgarian
[00:06:26] fisherman complained of being out of work because the low water
[00:06:29] levels. Scientists won levels are unlikely to
[00:06:33] improve for at least another
[00:06:35] month.
[00:06:39] Taka suša do sega ne je imal.
[00:07:12] has not been so fortunate. low water levels forced the closure
[00:07:16] the Pax Nuclear power plant for the first time in its almost
[00:07:20] 44 year history. the wildfires are a stark
[00:07:23] warning that unless the world controls global warming,
[00:07:27] destruction of this extent will continue to be the new
[00:07:30] normal. adam amunu across the
[00:07:33] balcans. more on the extreme
[00:07:36] climate conditions affecting Europe and the Balkans and what they
[00:07:40] mean for the future, I will discuss.
[00:07:48] Hello and thank you for having me on your program. Recent
[00:07:52] updates say wild fires across Europe have largely
[00:07:56] been contained. Can you tell us more about
[00:07:58] it? We can clearly say
[00:08:02] that most the wildfires now across Europe have
[00:08:06] been under control partially because we
[00:08:10] had some the disturbances from the Atlantic that brought some
[00:08:14] fresh air and instability, which also brought some
[00:08:17] beneficial rainfall, however, it's far from over,
[00:08:21] and we can say that we still have hundreds of
[00:08:24] wildfires across europe from France all the
[00:08:28] way to Bulgaria in the east, so we can
[00:08:32] expect that these these conditions will continue to linger
[00:08:36] for at least another week or so. uh, we see that the
[00:08:40] new rivers water levels
[00:08:42] hit a... low, what are the impacts on European and Balkan
[00:08:45] countries? there are major
[00:08:48] impacts on the European countries, it is not only
[00:08:52] the Balkans that is facing the the crisis with the
[00:08:56] water, it is also present across central and
[00:09:00] western Europe, which has endured
[00:09:03] very hot, dry and foremost
[00:09:07] record breaking summer, not to mention that we also see hunger
[00:09:11] stones. again and this is
[00:09:15] just telling you how serious the situation
[00:09:18] is across many parts of Europe, but for the Balkans in
[00:09:22] specific we can say that this is largely
[00:09:26] threatening the the ecosystems and
[00:09:29] also the transport of goods, so one
[00:09:33] the things that we have with the droughts is that this is
[00:09:37] a this is the insidious part
[00:09:41] the hazard. because the draw starts
[00:09:44] slowly but very treaterously and once it
[00:09:48] starts, once you have the onset in terms
[00:09:52] of meteorology and hydrology, we are now in
[00:09:56] meteorological and hydrological drought, this can
[00:09:59] only bring the you know the
[00:10:03] additional burdens to our pockets, because we will be
[00:10:06] paying more for the transport because we are overstretching
[00:10:10] the system and we're over stretching the limits of how we
[00:10:14] can operate, how we can transfer our goods,
[00:10:17] because we now need to use the fried services, we
[00:10:21] also need to use other sources sources of...
[00:10:25] transport, so it is not good in the
[00:10:28] way uh, for the for the human beings
[00:10:31] in in terms of what we can expect
[00:10:34] from it, and also we
[00:10:36] can carry say that we will be definitely paying
[00:10:39] more uh for many many
[00:10:42] goods. what measures should have been taken to
[00:10:46] prevent the danubes recession? could it have been
[00:10:48] prevented? largely
[00:10:52] speaking from meteorological perspective and... hydrological
[00:10:55] perspective, not likely that we could have
[00:10:59] prevented this, one what what we could have done is to
[00:11:03] track the weather uh and the seasonal weather
[00:11:07] forecasts, which implied
[00:11:09] that this summer will be dryer than normal across central and
[00:11:13] western parts of europe, which was nicely in analogue what
[00:11:17] we can with what we could have seen with some previous
[00:11:21] years that have resembled the similar conditions that we had in.
[00:11:25] since april, the signal for dryer and hotter
[00:11:29] summer has been persistent across many weather
[00:11:33] models that we analyzed and also the analogs that we
[00:11:36] derived, so we had the
[00:11:39] signal and we could have seen now, three,
[00:11:43] four months afterwards that this is now
[00:11:46] materializing in the way that maybe it
[00:11:50] left us a little bit surprise given the magnitude
[00:11:54] in in terms. how many heatways we had across
[00:11:58] many parts of Europe, especially western corner the Europe, and
[00:12:02] also the number of records that we have
[00:12:05] had both in hydrological and
[00:12:08] meteorological uh sense, not to mention that
[00:12:12] most the rivers are now depleted and the levels
[00:12:16] are extremely low for this time the year, which
[00:12:20] concurs with some the hottest summers that we uh recorded in
[00:12:23] Europe such as... 2003 which had very similar
[00:12:27] conditions when for example Zagreb was
[00:12:31] forced to have host by pans and also the water
[00:12:34] restrictions because sava river was on the
[00:12:38] record low. now we can clearly see that this
[00:12:41] is not just contained to the Balkans and central Europe, it is more pan
[00:12:45] European compared to 2025 years
[00:12:49] ago. Romania has used
[00:12:51] explosives to divert the danube's water. slope to
[00:12:55] its nuclear power plant, do you think this will
[00:12:58] work? a short term, yes, but this is
[00:13:02] just the emergency exit, you cannot
[00:13:06] always conduct these sort of experiments where
[00:13:10] you have a where you have detonation and essentially you're
[00:13:14] diverting the river flow, so you cannot
[00:13:16] always use these uh
[00:13:20] situations, it will help, but just as a element as a
[00:13:24] element. help, mean elementary precaution
[00:13:28] just to make sure that the chernovoda works
[00:13:32] without any disruption, we could have seen for for example in
[00:13:36] Hungary this has been done a different way, packs has
[00:13:40] been shut down, maybe Romania could have
[00:13:43] done the same, because this is the situation where you have
[00:13:47] a high level risk
[00:13:49] and you cannot always guarantee it will be successful, so you need to
[00:13:53] do this under v very high controlled levels,
[00:13:57] under the high control levels and then expect that you
[00:14:01] essentially get the favorable outcome, this time
[00:14:05] that was the case, thankfully, and also you
[00:14:09] could get the rise of your river
[00:14:12] flow in this sort of situations, but it's not the
[00:14:16] recommended way to do so. heat
[00:14:20] waves cause more and more serious problems every
[00:14:23] year, what protect? measures should governments
[00:14:27] take? That's a great question and I'm grateful that you asked
[00:14:31] it, because we always consider that the
[00:14:34] cold extremes are the ones that are
[00:14:38] attributed to the higher debts across
[00:14:41] Europe and across the world, but now we see
[00:14:45] that this has been overtaken with the warmer extremes as
[00:14:49] our climate progressively continues to warm up,
[00:14:53] and in that sense, 2026 was
[00:14:56] very stark reminder that the climate change is
[00:15:00] here and that the rate the climate crisis is
[00:15:04] just accelerating with more greenhouse gases that we dumped
[00:15:07] into our oceans because oceans are huge
[00:15:11] absorbers the the
[00:15:14] energy not to mention that
[00:15:18] what we can do is obviously we can do our part
[00:15:21] our individual parts but for the governments.
[00:15:25] is to put more into the infrastructure that is
[00:15:29] robust that it can handle these sort of
[00:15:32] extremes, which will also reduce this
[00:15:36] the burden on the... national health services
[00:15:38] and consequently you can expect that
[00:15:42] these summers will be much easier to
[00:15:45] bear and obviously it will be more comfortable for
[00:15:49] many. one the things that many European countries are now
[00:15:53] considering our introduction of sieastas or any sort
[00:15:57] of temporary break
[00:15:59] between the afternoon hours when
[00:16:03] you have the highest temperatures which perhaps
[00:16:07] wouldn't be a bad idea to reconsider how we
[00:16:11] work during the hottest part the year and not to
[00:16:15] mention that uh doing nothing cost even
[00:16:19] more than investing a robust infrastructure,
[00:16:23] so we all start from roads that are
[00:16:26] melting, especially in western Europe, which are
[00:16:29] not, which which are not adjusted to these
[00:16:33] sort of level of temperatures that we had in
[00:16:36] 2026, 'm and obviously uh this is
[00:16:40] causing more burden to your economy, but when you invest
[00:16:44] more into the robust infrastructure, you're
[00:16:47] reducing any additional uh debts and
[00:16:51] payments that you would normally have to
[00:16:54] invest uh because you're not doing
[00:16:57] anything and you're just waiting to see how much your
[00:17:01] infrastructure can handle these sort of extremes
[00:17:05] and obviously people are ' getting overheated
[00:17:09] in their homes and this is
[00:17:12] obviously having another you know feedback loop
[00:17:15] link where uh where you have a overheated home you get
[00:17:19] a you were essentially receiving some sort of a
[00:17:23] thermal stress and that is leading to the body
[00:17:26] exhaustion and then you're burdening your NHS and
[00:17:30] essentially causing more harm than good
[00:17:33] and it is a perfect scenario
[00:17:37] form where you can you can clearly see that
[00:17:41] all uh sectors are related quite
[00:17:44] closely and they should work as as their role
[00:17:48] is. nadem sladic, thank you so much for your time and for
[00:17:52] being with us in across the balks. thank you for
[00:17:55] having me
[00:17:56] again.
[00:18:02] at the beginning of August, Kosovo once again became the center
[00:18:06] the music for. as Global Music Stars performed in Prishtina and
[00:18:10] this year's Sunny Hill Festival. We discussed the festival and its
[00:18:13] significance for Kosovo with its founder and dua Lipa's
[00:18:17] father Dukajin Lipa. Welcome to Across the Balkans. Thank
[00:18:21] you for joining us. Thank you
[00:18:25] for having me. Another successful festival is behind
[00:18:28] you. Tell us more about this year's festival. For the
[00:18:32] audience, I think one of its highlights was when Katy Perry
[00:18:36] come on stage. holding the cosovo flag, am I
[00:18:39] right? uh, yeah, I
[00:18:43] guess, I guess the festival is becoming very big and not just
[00:18:47] one moment in the festival defines the festival itself, but yeah, of
[00:18:51] course it's Katie Perry, including the flag
[00:18:55] of Kosovo as part of her performance, as she does in many other
[00:18:59] countries, it is beautiful highlight for for the Kosovo audience
[00:19:03] and and Kosovo as a country, so yeah, this year.
[00:19:07] This year we have we have surpassed all our numbers that we had like
[00:19:11] from last year and it's becoming one the bigger festivals in southeast
[00:19:15] Europe - the lineup
[00:19:19] was amazing, the audience is equally amazing
[00:19:23] as as the lineup is we are very happy, we are very
[00:19:26] happy, great. Sunny Hill started as an idea between you and your
[00:19:30] daughter, Dualipa and today it has become one the biggest music
[00:19:34] festivals in southeast Europe. How did this idea come about? and
[00:19:38] why was it so important for
[00:19:39] you to create festival on this scale in
[00:19:42] Kosovo? uh, well, I
[00:19:45] mean it, it derives from so many different kind of angles, it's
[00:19:49] not just one idea that we had like one day and say, we would love to have
[00:19:53] festival, I was a musician
[00:19:56] in in my past life, and do I basically
[00:20:00] grew up with me performing and her being
[00:20:04] a backstage, and then we obviously we have...
[00:20:08] changed positions a much much much bigger
[00:20:11] scale and my
[00:20:14] marketing career started as a part the of
[00:20:18] of a organization that that that had festivals in their
[00:20:22] in their roster so i was always in
[00:20:25] love with festivals and and and and these kind of
[00:20:29] organizations and live music especially so it was
[00:20:33] kind of natural progression from being a
[00:20:36] festival into a promoter and
[00:20:39] organizer of festival
[00:20:42] and that's that's that's one
[00:20:46] the the things that we do and luckily.
[00:20:50] you now we are not too bad at that one, yeah dugi, turning
[00:20:53] that festival into reality was certainly not easy uh,
[00:20:57] what were the biggest challenges you and your family faced along the
[00:21:01] way? guess
[00:21:05] in the beginning the the the biggest challenges were to to to
[00:21:09] to let our friends, artists and managers
[00:21:13] and agents and and promoters to let them know
[00:21:17] that that what we are promising. as
[00:21:20] festival organizers is something very
[00:21:24] serious, we are in we we very well
[00:21:27] known -
[00:21:29] of promoting Kosovo and
[00:21:33] promoting the country and promoting the the the city of Pristina
[00:21:36] especially and
[00:21:40] we needed to kind of prove everyone that that coming to Prishtina and coming
[00:21:44] to the festival is going to be beautiful experience for
[00:21:47] everyone so maybe that was the hardest bit in the
[00:21:51] beginning to to to kind of make them believe us
[00:21:55] that we are not inviting you here just - as our friends, we are
[00:21:59] inviting
[00:22:00] you a level of professionalism that you
[00:22:03] are you have seen everywhere in the world uh if not
[00:22:07] a higher level because we have to prove that uh
[00:22:10] you know our production is great, our stages are great, our team is
[00:22:14] great, and what's more important the energy that that the audience
[00:22:18] gives back to the artist? is in my opinion unmached in
[00:22:22] the world uh today some the biggest names in
[00:22:26] world music come to Prishtina uh beside do Alippa, Miley
[00:22:30] Cyrus, Katie Perry, Sean Mendez, Calvin Harris and many
[00:22:33] others. What does it mean to you that Kosovo is bringing
[00:22:37] together global stars and gives young people across the Balkans
[00:22:41] and the Kosovan and Albanian diaspora the opportunity to
[00:22:44] experience worldcs concerts in their own country rather than
[00:22:48] having to travel abroad. I mean it's it's uh when you when
[00:22:52] you mat when you mention these names and and and Kosovo in one
[00:22:56] sentence have been probably an impossible
[00:22:59] sentence to to to utter, but
[00:23:02] you know thankfully and luckily and we have the technical capabilities, we
[00:23:06] have teams and we have hospitality that
[00:23:09] that you know our friends can enjoy and having all these
[00:23:13] number names in Kosovo is something that
[00:23:17] brings a lot of value to
[00:23:20] to the country, it brings a lot of value to to Pristina, to
[00:23:24] Kosovo, and now we are very proud to host our
[00:23:28] friends and these big artists in in our
[00:23:32] country, so despite achieving international
[00:23:35] success, you have remained deeply connected to Kosovo, what
[00:23:39] has it been important for you to invest in your
[00:23:42] homeland? I'm I'm I'm very attached to my homeland, I'm very
[00:23:46] attached to my hometown, Prishtina,
[00:23:50] luckily I have uh apart from from emotional
[00:23:54] attachments we have like work attachments as well so I'm I'm
[00:23:58] very very much connected to uh my
[00:24:01] hometown not just on the emotional side but from work side as
[00:24:05] well - talking
[00:24:09] about the the economical impact the Sunny Hill festival by our
[00:24:13] research last year we had about 50
[00:24:15] million um
[00:24:18] uh that Prishtina as
[00:24:22] a city or Kosovo benefited from Sunny Hill
[00:24:25] festival, that is that is an
[00:24:28] enormous amount of money that comes
[00:24:32] to the to Cosovo Kosovo through through the
[00:24:35] festival, um this year with this
[00:24:38] year uh research I'm expecting to to to
[00:24:42] double that considering that we had double the the the numbers
[00:24:45] nearly the festival, there is no
[00:24:48] business uh and we do have some very big
[00:24:51] businesses uh that run out of Kosovo can
[00:24:55] bring 50 to 100 million for one week not to
[00:24:59] their budgets but but to to to Kosovo budget
[00:25:03] so I think that Sunny Hill festival is very
[00:25:06] important to for the country as well uh your daughter
[00:25:10] Dualipa often speaks proudly about her Kosovan and
[00:25:13] Albanian rots how did you and your wife raise your children to
[00:25:17] maintain such a strong sense of identity, belonging
[00:25:21] and love for their homeland despite growing up and achieving success
[00:25:25] internationally. i
[00:25:28] think you have to be in love with who you are, you have to
[00:25:32] be in love with with with the country that you come from, you have
[00:25:35] embrace your history, you have to promote your history, you
[00:25:39] don't have to be, mean i know that that lot of people from
[00:25:43] Kosovo and from Albania and from
[00:25:45] you know the the the countries they work very hard in
[00:25:49] there.
[00:25:50] the their daily lives and they don't have enough time to spend with their kids and
[00:25:54] then usually
[00:25:55] you know kids start speaking the more the the the
[00:25:59] the language the country where you are or where the... live,
[00:26:03] but it's very important to to to to get your your
[00:26:07] children to to speak the language, it it's always something that
[00:26:11] it's great asset to have,
[00:26:14] and I guess we are very, very proud of where who we are
[00:26:18] and where we where we from, and that
[00:26:21] has trickled down to to
[00:26:24] to our to our children, and we try to speak Albanian as much as we
[00:26:27] can, when we are in London, when we
[00:26:31] are anywhere in the... world uh sometimes with dua when
[00:26:35] we need to say something in secret we turn it into Albanian that's our secret
[00:26:38] language
[00:26:39] so yeah
[00:26:40] I guess I guess embracing who you are and and being proud of
[00:26:43] who you are and and loving the heritage and loving the history
[00:26:47] and being proud of of that that's uh
[00:26:51] that's one the the the parts you know to to to
[00:26:55] kind of try and and tell your children that you should not be
[00:26:59] embarrassed of where you from and the language that you speak.
[00:27:03] Uh, what is your vision for the future of Sunny Hill Festival
[00:27:07] and how do you see the future of Kosovo? I think the Sunny Hill festival is
[00:27:11] going to become the biggest festival in
[00:27:14] Southeast Europe and hopefully in five years we are going to
[00:27:18] start competing with a bigger festival festivals in Europe.
[00:27:22] What Sunny Hill brings to to to the country is very
[00:27:26] valuable and we need to kind of
[00:27:30] work together ' into promoting the
[00:27:33] country as much as we
[00:27:36] can. Dukajin Lipa, thank you
[00:27:40] very much uh for joining us today in across the Balkans. Thank
[00:27:44] you for your time. Thank you so
[00:27:47] much.
[00:27:53] That's all from me and the theme for this week. Stay connected with across the
[00:27:57] Balkans by following our stories on TRT World's social medias and
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