Poland – The Polish oil group PKN Orlen announced on Saturday, 25 February, that oil deliveries from Russia via the Druzhba pipeline had come to a stop. In recent times, the Druzhba pipeline had been carrying some 10% of Polish oil…
Poland – The Polish arms company Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa announced on Friday, 24 February, the signing of agreements to strengthen its cooperation with its South Korean partners.
According to the press release issued by the company, which is based in Radom (some…
Poland – Following the decision made in early November 2022 by Mateusz Morawiecki’s government to entrust the construction of Poland’s first nuclear power plant at the Lubiatowo-Kopalino site (Pomerania voivodeship) to the American company Westinghouse, an agreement was signed on 22 February…
Poland/Ukraine - After several weeks of talks, Poland has now delivered its first four German-made Leopard 2A4 tanks to Ukraine, out of a promised total of 14, alongside 60 additional PT-91 Twardy tanks, a Polish-made, modernized version of the old Soviet T-72…
Poland – This was certainly a very busy week for Polish leaders. After the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited Warsaw on Monday, 20 February, before heading to Kyiv, U.S. President Joe Biden was in the Polish capital on 21–22 February. On…
Poland – With the next parliamentary elections to be held by 11 November 2023 at the latest, a recent poll reported on 8 February by Do Rzeczy shows that the Polish opposition may have a chance of winning against the United Right,…
Poland – After Giorgia Meloni, who then went to Kyiv, it was US President Joe Biden’s turn to be received by the Polish leaders with full honours on Tuesday, 21 February.
After having been welcomed in the early afternoon by his Polish…
Poland – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was on a visit to Warsaw on Monday, 20 February, where she held talks with President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on the eve of Joe Biden’s visit. Meloni’s political party Fratelli d'Italia…
Central Europe – The latest published economic figures indicate the persistence of high inflation in Central Europe, particularly in the four countries of the Visegrád Group, with the situation being particularly serious in Hungary.
Hungary’s annual inflation at 25.7 percent in January…
Austria – A year ago, the Austrian government was still enforcing some of Europe’s most extreme measures against the Covid pandemic, causing an unprecedented uproar in a traditionally peaceful society. In January this year, however, the coalition government in Vienna, made up…
Hungary - Each year, mid-February, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán holds a speech on the "state of the Nation" in which he addresses the main topics of the past and current year to come. We received a translation of the speech by…
Hungary/Poland – As The Times of Israel noted on 14 February, unlike other EU ambassadors, Zoltán Varga-Haszonits and Maciej Fałkowski, the ambassadors of Hungary and Poland respectively, chose not to boycott the ceremonies celebrating the 44th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic…