Poland’s WWII reparations demands rebuffed by Germany

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Poland’s WWII reparations demands rebuffed by Germany

The Editorial Board January 11, 2023

Poland/Germany – On 3 October 2022, Poland’s Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, in a diplomatic note sent to the German government, formalised the long-discussed Polish request to reopen the question of German reparations to Poland for the damage caused…

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Ukraine’s Bandera commemorations going down badly with Poland

Ferenc Almássy January 10, 2023

Poland/Ukraine – The beginning of the year in Ukraine was marked by Russian bombings, but also many commemorations of Stepan Bandera, a particularly controversial historical figure. Such commemorations go down badly with neighbouring Poland, where people still remember the horrendous ethnic cleansing…

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Western media silence over massive US funding of Hungarian opposition

The Editorial Board January 5, 2023

Originally published in French on the website of the Observatory of Journalism, 22 December 2022. In Hungary, the fiasco of Péter Márki-Zay, an unsuccessful and extraordinarily clumsy candidate in the April 2022 parliamentary elections, is still unfolding. Last summer, Márki-Zay admitted that…

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Prices soaring after Croatia switches currency to euro

The Editorial Board January 5, 2023

Croatia – On 1 January 2023, Croatia abandoned its national currency, the kuna, to become the eurozone’s 20th member state – at the same time as it joined the Schengen borderless travel area. The kuna will now remain in use, in parallel…

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Hungary exempts mothers under 30 from income tax

The Editorial Board January 4, 2023

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…

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Czechia and Slovakia: Thirty years of a successful divorce

The Editorial Board January 3, 2023

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…

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Poland’s sports stars

The Editorial Board December 27, 2022

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…

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PKN Orlen summarises the sport year of 2022

The Editorial Board December 23, 2022

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…

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Gesture from Kyiv towards national minorities leaves Budapest sceptical

The Editorial Board December 23, 2022

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…

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Czech Prime Minister warns of lasting crises ahead

The Editorial Board December 23, 2022

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,…

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Merry Christmas 2022!

Ferenc Almássy December 23, 2022

Dear readers, The Visegrád Post team wishes you a merry, holy and peaceful Christmas. On this day of celebration of hope and love, let us remember that light will triumph over darkness and that Our Lord Jesus Christ was born…

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Germany preparing to deploy Patriot batteries to Poland

The Editorial Board December 22, 2022

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.…