Matteo Salvini has joined the Draghi regime in Italy and appears to be embracing the EU establishment, at least for now. Is this a permanent makeover for Lega and Salvini, or a strategic move for the future?
A senior party official says…
The numbers don’t lie; compared to Israel, or a few Gulf monarchies, the USA or even the UK, the European Union’s vaccination against the coronavirus is way behind.
The European Commission however, is quite optimistic believing that by the summer 70% of…
Hungary – Every summer, the Hungarian Prime Minister gives lectures in political philosophy and commentates governmental strategy. This year, in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, none of these summer meetings took place. Christian Democrat Prime Minister Viktor Orbán made up these…
Czechia - She is the most well-known Czech female politician on the EU-level and has been involved in politics, both in the EU and in the Czech Republic, for many years. During this time, she has led a campaign of censorship and…
Visegrád Group - “Poland still remembers the decisive events of 1989 and always supports its neighbours. I have called for an extraordinary meeting of the European Council and strong reaction from the EU to what is happening in Belarus. We must support…
Covid kills the elderly wherever it finds them
or: why the relatively low mortality rate in Eastern Europe
does not prove any success of the anti-epidemic policies adopted
(second draft: 14.06.2020)
MAIN THESIS
During the first half of May 2020, in…
European Union - “Extraordinary times require extraordinary action”, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said last March, when announcing the ECB would embark on a new spending spree worth €750 billion to purchase sovereign debt from eurozone countries as an emergency response…
Having reacted faster to the COVID-19 pandemic than their Western European counterparts, the four countries of the Visegrád Group (Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary) were also among the first to reduce their lockdown measures – which were less stringent than…
Covid kills the elderly wherever it finds them
or: why the relatively low mortality rate in Eastern Europe
does not prove any success of the anti-epidemic policies adopted
MAIN THESIS
If we focus on male longevity (the Covid-19 virus being selective – including sexual…
By Alimuddin Usmani.
Czechia – The country saw three notable incidences in 2019: The European elections of 24-25 May, followed by a huge anti-government protest on 23 June and then a second protest that took place on 16 November. This last protest…
Interview with Vojtěch Filip, the President of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia: "Those who had an interest in looting the State's remaining assets objected and are now helping the so-called citizens’ initiatives – which are effectively linked to George Soros'…
By Olivier Bault.
This article was originally published on Kurier.plus by the Felczak Institute of Polish–Hungarian Cooperation.
Central Europe - Budapest hosted its third demographic summit on September 5–6, attended by representatives from several Central European governments, including Czech PM Andrej Babiš,…