Hungary – One significant consequence of Russia’s war in Ukraine was Finland and Sweden’s application for NATO membership last year. For those two traditionally non-aligned countries to become members of the Atlantic Alliance, however, they have to get the green light from…
Hungary – In an interview with the Swiss magazine Weltwoche published on 1 March, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán spoke about the war in Ukraine, the ways to achieve peace, his own meetings with Vladimir Putin, and Europe’s dramatic weakness.
Asked how…
Czechia/Hungary – The Visegrád Group appeared for many years as a more or less politically cohesive entity, representing the specific interests of Central Europe against Brussels’ efforts at imposing leftist liberal ideologies upon the whole EU and its drive for ever more…
Poland – This was certainly a very busy week for Polish leaders. After the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited Warsaw on Monday, 20 February, before heading to Kyiv, U.S. President Joe Biden was in the Polish capital on 21–22 February. On…
Central Europe – The latest published economic figures indicate the persistence of high inflation in Central Europe, particularly in the four countries of the Visegrád Group, with the situation being particularly serious in Hungary.
Hungary’s annual inflation at 25.7 percent in January…
Hungary - Each year, mid-February, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán holds a speech on the "state of the Nation" in which he addresses the main topics of the past and current year to come. We received a translation of the speech by…
Hungary/Poland – As The Times of Israel noted on 14 February, unlike other EU ambassadors, Zoltán Varga-Haszonits and Maciej Fałkowski, the ambassadors of Hungary and Poland respectively, chose not to boycott the ceremonies celebrating the 44th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic…
Hungary/Belarus – The Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Péter Szijjártó, visited Minsk on Monday, 13 February. He met with his Belarusian counterpart, Sergei Aleikov and Economy Minister Aleksandr Chervyakov to discuss trade relations between the two countries, as well as…
Hungary – The least that can be said is that the French and Hungarian governments are generally not on the same wavelength. However, there are some areas where Paris and Budapest have similar stances, as is the case with nuclear power.
During…
Hungary/Ukraine – After his visit to London, where he met with King Charles III and addressed British MPs at Westminster, and then Paris, where he was received by French President Emmanuel Macron in the presence of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Ukrainian President…
Czechia – Covid-19, the Russian–Ukrainian war, and the energy crisis had pushed the issue of illegal immigration to the back burner, but Czechia’s newest statistics show that it is still present and getting worse.
According to Czech police figures, the…
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…