Poland – Polish voters will go to the polls this autumn to renew their parliament. After eight years in power, support for the ruling United Right coalition led by Law and Justice (PiS) is, according to the latest polls, at least 8%…
Hungary – On July 4, the Hungarian parliament passed a law on the status of teachers by 134 votes to 60. This new law will come into force on January 1, 2024, and will significantly increase teachers’ salaries.
After several months of…
Austria / Hungary / Serbia – A few dozen scattered demonstrators gathered at Ballhausplatz in front of the Austrian Federal Chancellery last Friday, July 7 to protest the Austro-Hungarian-Serbian summit devoted to the fight against illegal immigration. The three countries were represented…
Hungary/Poland – The recent European migration agreement is clearly not going down well in Warsaw and Budapest. Whereas the two governments have been at odds over the war in Ukraine since the beginning of last year, they have again found common ground…
Central Europe – To mark the end of Slovakia’s presidency of the Visegrád Group before handing it over to Czechia, Slovakia’s Prime Minister, Ľudovít Ódor, welcomed his V4 counterparts to Bratislava for a summit on immigration last Monday at a time when…
The French-language news portal Breizh-Info has published a long interview in French with Hungarian Member of Parliament László Toroczkai, who is the leader of the opposition nationalist parliamentary group Mi Hazánk Mozgalom. The following is an English translation. …
Hungary/Ukraine – A controversy arose in early June after Russia handed over 11 Ukrainian prisoners of war belonging to the Hungarian minority in Subcarpathia to Hungary. The release, which was facilitated by the Russian Orthodox Church, has fuelled new tensions between…
Central Europe – On June 8, the EU-27 interior ministers finally approved the EU Migration Pact that had first been proposed by the European Commission in 2020. The European Commissioner for Home Affairs, the Swedish social-democrat Ylva Johansson, called this decision “a…
Slovakia – Slovakian President Zuzana Čaputová is probably not the only one worried that the social-democratic parties of former prime ministers Robert Fico and Peter Pellegrini, Smer and Hlas, are leading the polls just a few months ahead of the early…
Slovakia – The social democrats are on the rise in Slovakia and, according to opinion polls, the parties of former prime ministers Robert Fico (Smer) and Peter Pellegrini (Hlas) are set to win the early elections scheduled for September 30. The two…
Slovakia – The presidents of the Bucharest Nine – Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia – met at Bratislava Castle on Tuesday, June 6 at the invitation of Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová alongside her counterparts from Poland and…
Poland - Is the true purpose of a new special commission in fact hunting down Russian influence, or hindering opponents during the autumn parliamentary election campaign? As is often the case in Poland, two competing narratives are at odds following President Andrzej…