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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…

Politics

Full speech by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the 32nd Bálványos Summer Free University on 22 July 2023

The Editorial Board July 25, 2023

Hungary / Romania - Each year, end of July, Viktor Orbán holds a speech of political philosophy at the summer camp of Bálványos in Băile Tușnad (Tusványos or Tusnádfürdő in Hungarian) in Transylvania – a region formerly Hungarian, of which many parts…

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Poland and Romania join forces in arms procurement

The Editorial Board April 6, 2023

Poland/Romania – Just a week before Finland officially joined NATO on 4 April, nearly doubling the length of the Alliance’s eastern border in Europe, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and his Romanian counterpart Nicolae Ciucă announced in late March, from Bucharest, new…

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Higher than average inflation in V4 countries

The Editorial Board February 23, 2023

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…

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Hungary to participate in construction of world’s longest underwater power line

The Editorial Board December 22, 2022

Hungary – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced on Saturday, 17 December, that his country will take part in the construction of the world’s longest undersea power line across the Black Sea and into the Caspian Sea, in cooperation with Romania, Georgia…

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New ECJ ruling against Romania’s Constitutional Court

The Editorial Board February 23, 2022

Romania/European Union – Following Hungary and Poland, it is now Romania’s turn to find itself in the crosshairs of the EU authorities. As part of a jurisdictional dispute that has been festering since last spring, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered…

Politics

Conflict of jurisdiction between Brussels and the EU’s East getting nasty (Part 2)

Olivier Bault December 31, 2021

EU case law vs national constitution – Rulings and counter-rulings by ECJ and Romanian Constitutional Court -- Read Part 1: Warsaw demands EU treaties be complied with and refuses to pay fines imposed by the ECJ -- As major beneficiaries of EU…

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Bucharest: anti-green pass demonstrators break into Senate courtyard

The Editorial Board December 24, 2021

Romania – On Tuesday, 21 December, George Simion‘s Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), a nationalist party, organized a demonstration in Bucharest to protest against the proposed health passport called the “green certificate” (certificatul verde) in Romania. The protest was marred…

Society

Neptun Deep gas project: Exxon sells its shares to Romgaz

Yann Caspar November 12, 2021

Romania – It seems that Romanian company Romgaz has reached an agreement with US giant ExxonMobil to buy the US company’s 50% stake in the Neptun Deep gas field project, located in the Black Sea, for a sum of 1.06 billion dollars.…

Magyar Nemzet

György Matolcsy: Romania at a glance

Partenaire October 13, 2021

This article was published online by the Magyar Nemzet on 12 October 2021. In 1990, Romania began their market transition; at the time, they had the lowest level of development in the region. Romanian development was at 34.3 percent of the EU…

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Romanian liberal government toppled by no-confidence vote

The Editorial Board October 8, 2021

Romania – The move had been expected since the reformist party USR-PLUS (Uniunea Salvați România) withdrew its ministers from Florin Cîțu’s liberal government on 3 September. It came after Cîțu dismissed Justice Minister Stelian Ion (USR-PLUS) without first consulting his partners. Cîțu…

Interviews

George Simion: “Germany now controls a big part of our internal and external affairs”

Ferenc Almássy September 19, 2021

George Simion, President of the Romanian patriotic party AUR: "Regarding the Visegrád Group, we have the same history, we have the same interests, and we will have the same future. We cannot rely on Germany, which now controls a big part of…