Hungary – Hungary’s fertility rate had fallen from 1.806 children per woman in 1989 to a catastrophic 1.295 in 2003, and it was still at 1.330 in 2010, when Viktor Orbán and the Fidesz party came back to…
Czechia/Slovakia – On 1 January 1993, three years after the Velvet Revolution, which put an end to almost 42 years of communist rule in Czechoslovakia, the two constituent peoples of that binational state, originally founded in October 1918 and reconstituted in April…
Poland - On December 19th, the largest company of Central Eastern Europe and one of the world’s 150 largest companies, the Polish oil refining and petrol retailing giant PKN Orlen, organized a Christmas meeting for all the sportsmen and children engaged in…
Poland - On December 19th, the Polish oil refining and petrol retailing giant PKN Orlen, organized a Christmas get-together for the Polish athletes and sports stars that it sponsors. Nearly 400 representatives of the world of sports were present for the event…
Ukraine – In the midst of the war with Russia, on 13 December, the Ukrainian parliament amended (by 324 votes out of 421) the law on national minorities, thus fulfilling one of the necessary conditions to start negotiations for membership of the…
Czechia – At a press conference held on Saturday, 17 December, on the occasion of the first anniversary of his government taking office , Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala warned that the time of crises (Covid, war in Ukraine,…
Poland/Ukraine – Following the 15 November incident in which two people were killed on Polish territory by a wandering missile launched by Ukraine’s air defence during a Russian missile attack, the German government offered to provide Patriot air defence systems to Poland.…
Hungary – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced on Saturday, 17 December, that his country will take part in the construction of the world’s longest undersea power line across the Black Sea and into the Caspian Sea, in cooperation with Romania, Georgia…
Hungary – The Czech Presidency of the EU Council sent a letter in early December to the ambassadors of the 27 member states warning them that the “transphobia of one delegation” threatens the European position as a spearhead for this issue on…
Slovakia – Slovakia is again going through a political crisis. After having been in office for just over 20 months, Eduard Heger’s government was voted out by the National Council – Slovakia’s unicameral parliament – last Thursday when a motion tabled by…
Poland – The Polish daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita reported on 12 December that the 2013 Dublin III Regulation on the member states responsible for examining asylum applications was now being strictly applied to Poland.
The issue is about migrants mainly of Afghan and…
Hungary/European Union – At the meeting of the Permanent Representatives Committee (COREPER) that took place on Monday, 12 December, Hungarian representatives finally came to an agreement with their European counterparts on the four issues that remained unresolved after the meeting of finance…