Poland - “This is not the time for a ceasefire,” Jadwiga Emilewicz told Visegrad 24, re-iterating the support that the PiS administration showed to the Ukraine during her years as Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister. Emilewicz emphasised that “Ukraine want to be back…
Poland - Orlen SA, a Polish oil refiner and petrol conglomerate, has signed a multi-year strategic deal to supply natural gas to India's ArcelorMittal, the world's second-largest steel producer.
It is not the first time the two titans have collaborated over energy…
Hungary – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán visited Kazakhstan on November 1 together with his Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Péter Szijjártó and Finance Minister Mihály Varga. The Hungarian government’s delegation held talks with Kazakh leaders in Astana before attending the 10th…
Interview with Rusif Hüseynov, director and co-funder of the Topchubashov center, an Azerbaijani think tank based in Baku: "While other post-Soviet countries have been desperately seeking EU membership, the Azerbaijani side decided not to align itself with some power bloc in order…
Hungary – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev held new talks in Budapest during a visit by President Aliyev to mark Hungary’s national holiday on August 20. Following this meeting, the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade,…
Poland - Ever since the financial crisis of 2007-2008, world leaders have started to look more favourably at Industrial Policy (IP), juxtaposing it with economies that are entirely dependent on expansion in the service sector and financial speculation.
IP instead focuses on…
Poland – Following the decision made in early November 2022 by Mateusz Morawiecki’s government to entrust the construction of Poland’s first nuclear power plant at the Lubiatowo-Kopalino site (Pomerania voivodeship) to the American company Westinghouse, an agreement was signed on 22 February…
Hungary – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev at his office in the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest on 30 January. The two leaders mainly discussed energy issues, which have become more crucial than ever for Europe with Russia’s…
Poland – The surge in energy prices began before the war in Ukraine, and this cannot be stressed enough. A little over a year ago, in early December 2021, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki justified the “anti-inflation shield” implemented by his government by…
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…
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…