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The real cost of Fit for 55: will we be able to bear it?

Partenaire July 8, 2023

The costs of the climate transition designed by the EU and implemented in Poland will prove astronomical. They will primarily hit the poorest sections of society, as well as small and medium-sized enterprises An article by Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse , published originally…

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Eco-dictatorship: how the EU is turning into a dystopia

Partenaire June 12, 2023

The goal of the EU’s project to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is not at all to protect the climate for future generations. The game is about reducing man, reducing him to the position of a pest parasitizing the environment. An article by…

Politics

Macron and the Polish illusions

The Editorial Board January 29, 2022

The French president’s speech to the European Parliament does not bode well. An editorial by Paweł Lisicki, editor-in-chief of the influential Polish conservative weekly Do Rzeczy, published in the 24 January 2022 issue under the title “‘Wszystko to wróży jak najgorzej’. Macron…

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Crisis in relations between Poland and Czech Republic after ECJ decision on Turów mine

Olivier Bault September 25, 2021

Poland/Czechia – Rather than fostering an agreement between Poland and the Czech Republic, the decision by the ECJ’s Spanish vice-president to impose a daily penalty payment of €500,000 on Warsaw until it closes its lignite mine in Turów, near the Czech border,…

Politics

Full “State of the Nation” speech of Viktor Orbán, 2020

The Editorial Board February 19, 2020

Each February, since 1999, current Hungarian Christian-Democrat Prime Minister Viktor Orbán holds a speech on the state of the Nation, both of review of the past year and a public analysis of the foreseen issues. We display below the full translated transcript…

Politics

How the European spruce bark beetle destroys the the Białowieża forest in Poland with the support of environmentalists and of the European Commission

Olivier Bault December 12, 2017

By Olivier Bault. Article originally published in French on Réinformation TV. The European spruce bark beetle is a beetle that colonizes the spruce forests, a very common tree in the beautiful forest of Białowieża, North-East Poland. Ecologists consider it a primeval forest…

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Bulgaria registered 109,000 ha of forests within the Natura 2000 program

The Editorial Board November 8, 2016

Bulgaria - On November the 2nd, 2016, the Bulgarian Minister of Agriculture and Food Desislava Taneva signed a ministerial order placing 109,000 hectares of forest owned by the state as ancient forests, allowing their preservation through the European program Natura 2000. According…

Interviews

András Schiffer: the admission of Central Europe into the EU was a market acquisition

Ferenc Almássy October 26, 2016

Hungary - Interview with András Schiffer: "the admission into the EU of Central Europe was a market acquisition by Western Europe", by Ferenc Almássy. Ferenc Almássy made an interview for the Visegrád Post with András Schiffer, lawyer and Hungarian politician, former MP…

Society

Poland created a phosphorescent bike path!

The Editorial Board October 18, 2016

Poland, Olsztyn - In the North East of Poland, the small town of Olsztyn is currently testing a new type of bike path which is ... phosphorescent! The Polish town of Olsztyn since early October has a 100m length bike path, that…

Society

Romania bans trophy hunting

Marie Fouque October 15, 2016

By Marie Fouque. Romania – On Tuesday, October 4, the Minister of the Environment, Water and Forestry Cristiana Pasca Palmer announced that the trophy hunting of large carnivores is now banned in Romania. It is prohibited in the European Union but this…

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The Visegrád Four unite on forest management and ecology

The Editorial Board August 3, 2016

Slovakia - The Visegrád Group's countries signed a memorandum of collaboration for forest management. The ministers and secretaries of state responsible for Agriculture and Forestry met in Slovakia on July 8 to sign a memorandum of collaboration across the Visegrád Group (V4).…