Central Europe – Faced with a new wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, Central European countries are stepping up restrictions to try and contain the spread of the virus.
Hard lockdown in Austria from 22 November
As of 19 November, Austria had…
Austria – Following the Social Democrats’ support ensuring a government majority in the Bundesrat (upper house), Austria will, like neighbouring Italy, introduce a Covid pass mandate at work starting Monday, 1 November, with a transitional period until 15 November.
Health passes at…
Italy – The protest movement against a new law, in force since 15 October, requiring all employees to present their Covid green pass in order to be able to go to their workplace is not weakening – quite the reverse. The new…
Austria – On 6 October, the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office conducted searches at the headquarters of the Austrian People’s Party (Österreichische Volkspartei, ÖVP) and the free daily newspaper Österreich, but also at the Ministry of Finance and at the Austrian Federal Chancellery, something…
Austria – For the first time in the history of the Republic of Austria, the federal chancellery was searched on 6 October by the public prosecutor’s office. At the same time, similar operations were taking place in Vienna, both at the Finance…
Austria/Hungary/Poland – At a time when disputes between Budapest and Warsaw on the one side and EU institutions on the other continue to get worse, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, one of Viktor Orbán’s former EPP partners, called on the EU to stop…
Central Europe – Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš played host to Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Slovakian Prime Minister Eduard Heger at Lednice Castle near Břeclav in southern Moravia on Tuesday, September 7. The risk of a new migration crisis was on…
Hungary/Austria – After Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sent him a letter congratulating him on his election as leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) on 19 June, with the support of 88.24% of the delegates at an extraordinary congress, the…
Austria – Following a complaint lodged by the FPÖ (Austrian populist party), the administrative tribunal of Vienna has ruled on 24 March that PCR tests could not be considered as reliable way of diagnosing an illness or the level of contagiousness of…
European Union - At a press conference held in the last days of August, unrepentant German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that she would “make essentially the same decisions” today if confronted with the same situation as during the migrant crisis…
By Olivier Bault.
This article was originally published on Kurier.plus by the Felczak Institute of Polish–Hungarian Cooperation
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