Moldova, Chișinău - From 3 to 20 May, Moldva is hosting the Dragon Pioneer 2016. It's a series of drills of the Moldovian armed forces but also of the US armed forces. According to the Moldavian Defence Ministry Alla Diakonu , it…
Czechia, Prague - Visegrád's four hold a meeting on May 3-4, with the Foreign Ministers of their Eastern partners. The V4 continues to be committed to the European Union's Eastern Partnership program, according to the Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó.
Czech Foreign…
Finland - Finns are against their country joining of NATO and the President of Finland Sauli Niinistö said to be opposed to the adhesion.
Finland and Sweden have been considering joining the intergovernmental military alliance, though the nation has historically been militarily…
USA, Washington - The US Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work said to the Wall Street Journal that Russia has an "extraordinary provocative behavior". In the same time, NATO is getting more troops based around Russia and aim to include Sweden and Finland.…
Poland - Poland counts on Turkey to secure the NATO's East side against Russia, by Olivier Bault.
I made a phone interview with Artur Dmochowski, the spokesman for the Ministry, after the declarations of Witold Waszczykowski, the Foreign Affairs Minister of Poland,…
Latvia, Jumala - Last week, delegations from Scandinavian, Baltic and Visegrád countries met in Jumala, Latvia. They discussed about cooperation and security. It had been decided that Visegrád's countries will send troops to the Baltics in 2017.
According to leta.lv, a political…
Poland, Warsaw – On Friday, April 22, after their meeting, the Polish President Andrzej Duda and the Slovenian president Borut Pahor stated that they are against isolating Russian Federation and the dialog between NATO and Russia should be based on partnership.
President…
Serbia, Belgrade - On Sunday's elections, Aleksandar Vučić won the elections with approximately 50%. But his party, the SNS, asked for a recount of the results. The radical nationalists of Šešelj entered again the parliament.
On Sunday, April 24, Vučić won again…
Hungary, Budapest - During the ceremony at the Parliament for the 5 years of the new Hungarian constitution, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held an unequivocal speech. The Hungarian constitution prevents mass immigration and Islamization of the country, he said. …
Romania, Bucharest - Ukrainian President Petro Porochenko met his Romanian counterpart Klaus Iohannis on Thursday, April 21. They discussed about regional cooperation and security.
Ukrainian President Petro Porochenko went on last Thursday to Bucharest. He met with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, and…
Austria - The Austrians went to the polls on Sunday, April 24th to elect their future president. It is the Freedom Party of Austria (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs, FPÖ) that has come top in the first round of presidential elections, with 36.4 %…
By Olivier Bault
Poland, Warsaw - On the 13 of April, the European Parliament adopted a resolution asking Warsaw to publish and to implement the Polish Constitutional Court's resolutions, so the principles of the rule of law are respected in accordance with…