Czechia – 21 people initially said they would try their luck in Czechia’s upcoming presidential election. After having gone through the scrutiny of the interior ministry, which had to check, among other things, that each candidate was endorsed by at least twenty…
Slovenia/Hungary – Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob, his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán, and Croatian Energy Minister Davor Filipović jointly inaugurated the first high-voltage line connecting the Slovenian and Hungarian electricity grids in Cirkovce, Slovenia, on 2 December.
On this occasion,…
Hungary – While many media outlets have said that Hungary, and more specifically Finance Minister Mihály Varga, has vetoed the granting of an 18 billion euro loan to Ukraine, that country’s leaders give a different version of events. And it does indeed…
Poland – Like the other countries of the former Eastern bloc, Poland long remained highly dependent on Russian hydrocarbons after the fall of communism (in 1989–90) and the departure of the last Russian troops (in September 1993), which ended five decades of…
Hungary – On Monday, 5 December, MP Bence Tordai from the green party Párbeszéd posted on his Facebook account some quotes taken from what the Hungarian National Bank’s governor had told MPs sitting on the parliament’s economic committee.
The least we can…
Hungary – Some 730 teachers working in 78 different schools launched an unlimited strike last Friday. In addition, there were new demonstrations by teachers and students last week, in line with a protest movement that began at the start of the school…
Poland – The various parties belonging to the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group in the European Parliament met in Warsaw on Saturday, 3 December. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki attended in person, while his Italian counterpart, Giorgia Meloni, as well…
Hungary/Poland – With the beginning of December, the cooperation between Poland’s oil giant PKN Orlen and Hungary’s MOL – the other big player in Central Europe’s oil sector – reached a new level, consolidating the first’s growing regional ambitions and the second’s…
To what extent is the drastic increase in energy prices directly due to Russia’s war, to what extent is it the result of European sanctions, and to what extent is it due to Russia’s actions aimed at weakening public support for Ukraine…
Hungary/Ukraine – While Russia’s war against Ukraine means some would like to intensify NATO’s relations with Kyiv, or even accelerate the process of Ukraine’s possible future integration into the Atlantic Alliance, Hungarian leaders continue to defend their national interest against the…
Hungary/Poland/Ukraine – Hungarian President Katalin Novák and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki visited the Ukrainian capital on Saturday to lend their support to the Grain from Ukraine programme.
Photo: Facebook / Novák Katalin
As its name suggests, Grain from Ukraine is a programme…
Poland/Germany – In an interview published on 21 November by the German daily Rheinische Post , while referring to the 15 November incident when a Ukrainian air defence missile fell on a grain warehouse in Poland…