Hungary - A Hungarian court has sentenced 10 illegal migrants to between one and three years in jail for illegally crossing the border during a riot in September 2015 at Röszke, after Hungary built up a fence on the border with Serbia, in order…
Austria, Vienna - Austria's presidential election will be repeated, the country's constitutional court ruled on Friday, July 1. Austrians must now head to the polls once again in the autumn.
After the narrow victory of the far-left ecologist Alexander Van der Bellen…
European Union - The EU response to the deadly bombings in Paris and Brussels? Further restrict access to guns for honest citizens. Because Islamists and bandits provide anyway automatic weapons on the black market and this one isn't affected by the new…
Czechia, Prague – The Constitutional Court allowed gays and lesbians living in a civil union to adopt children.
The Court has overturned the law that banned gay couples living in a registered partnership (civil union) to adopt, saying on Tuesday that this…
Hungary - Between 2010 and 2015 the number of abortions in Hungary fell 22.9% but remains rather high compared to the average of Western European countries.
Experts attribute this high rate to the communist period, which oppressed countries of Central and Eastern…
Poland - Poland was, between January and March 2016, the largest EU beef exporter according to figures from the AHDB (British organization for beef and lamb). During the first quarter of 2016, Poland accounted for approximately 8,320 tonnes or 20% of EU beef…
Hungary - Hungary is preparing to close its last detention centers for migrants. Indeed János Lázár, staff chief of Viktor Orbán has just said that the Bicske city's complex (located in the western part of Budapest), is now useless given the containment…
Hungary - Approximately 100,000 health carer will see their salaries rise up to the double of their actual wages.
The Hungarian health care sector, which is owned by the Hungarian state, will benefit from a massive rise of its employees wages. According…
Poland - The Polish Parliament recently approved a bill to make it easier for authorities to monitor foreigners on their territory without passing through a court decision and hold suspects without charge for two weeks.
Under this bill, the Polish security service…
Latvia, Rīga – The monument of the victory commemorating the Soviet soldiers who died during the World War II and situated in the eponymous park in Rīga , is at present the object of disagreement of historical visions between Latvia and Russia.…
Poland – 24 countries sent troops for this huge 10-day long NATO exercise taking place in Poland and Lithuania. While tension rises more and more between the West and Russia, this massive exercise of 31,000 troops, one month before the NATO summit…
Czechia - According to the 2016 IMD World Competitiveness Scoreboard, Czechia reached the 27th place in their competitiveness ranking. The Central European country jumped two placed compared with its ranking of 2015.
By getting to the 27th place of the world ranking,…