Hungary - Gábor Vona, president of the Hungarian populist party Jobbik, wants to organize a proposed citizen's initiative to harmonize wages within the European Union.
On December 18, Gábor Vona, president of Jobbik -- the right-wing populist party and the country's second…
Germany, Berlin - On Monday the 19 at a Christmas market in Berlin, 12 people died after a truck crashed on the Breitscheidplatz. The wanted culprit would be a Tunisian man, whose identity card was found in the truck.
Lukasz Urban,…
Slovakia - The small Carpathian country's population is more and more inclined to support nationalist parties, and even 25% of the Slovaks would support a dictatorship.
Prime Minister Robert Fico, even though he is member of Smer, a centrist left-wing party, is…
By Olivier Bault.
Not satisfied with having plunged Poland into a constitutional crisis by wanting to appoint 5 judges of the Constitutional Court in advance to elections that they knew lost, not satisfied to blame the conservative winners of the October elections…
By Olivier Bault.
It was the fourth debate of the European Parliament on Wednesday on the situation of democracy and the rule of law in Poland, but this time in front of a largely empty assembly without the vote of resolution. One must…
Hungary - The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is an international organisation set up five years ago to keep an eye on corruption. Hungary decided to withdraw from it just before its summit in Paris, on December 7-9. It is the first country…
Slovakia - Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said he wants to bring law and order in the Gypsy towns, and is ready to fight with any person opposing this plan, including international institutions if necessary.
The Slovak Prime Minister, Robert Fico.
On the weekend…
Latvia, Rīga - Belarus and Latvia have signed an agreement on cooperation in the defense sector.
Belarus Defense Minister Lieutnant General Andrei Ravkov made a three-day visit in Latvia from December 5 to December 8, where he met with his Latvian counterpart Raimonds…
Hungary - On the occasion of the end-of-year celebrations, the Hungarian government offers food vouchers to retirees, worth 10,000 forints (31.85 euros).
On average, a pensioner receives 117,000 forints per month (372 euros), but more than half of pensioners receive less than…
Romania - The Romanian centre-left Social Democratic Party (PSD) won in a landslide elections on Sunday, December 11, with close to 46% of the total vote, one year after the forced resignation of the Social Democrat Prime Minister Victor Ponta in November…
Poland, Krakow - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán went to Krakow, Poland, for a two-days visit. He discussed with the Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło on migration and made on Friday, December 9, a speech on the "Renaissance of Central Europe".
Polish…
By Olivier Bault.
Russia, Smolensk - There are now eight bodies of which it is known that they had not been put in the coffin that was assigned to them and that had arrived leaden in Poland with prohibition to the families…