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Increased cooperation between Budapest and Baku in energy

The Editorial Board September 5, 2023

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,…

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New gas pipeline project between Slovenia and Hungary

The Editorial Board December 13, 2022

Slovenia/Hungary – Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob, his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán, and Croatian Energy Minister Davor Filipović jointly inaugurated the first high-voltage line connecting the Slovenian and Hungarian electricity grids in Cirkovce, Slovenia, on 2 December. On this occasion,…

Society

Poland accelerates its transition to Russia-free energy

Olivier Bault December 10, 2022

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…

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Demonstrations and counter-demonstrations in Czechia over sanctions against Russia

The Editorial Board November 2, 2022

“Czechia first!” This was the main slogan of the organisers of a demonstration attended by tens of thousands of people (according to the police) in Prague’s Wenceslas Square on Friday. Similar demonstrations also took place in other cities in Czechia, at the…

Miscellaneous

Hungary first

Olivier Bault May 24, 2022

This article was published online by Do Rzeczy on 15 May 2022. Explaining the reasons why his country cannot accept an embargo on Russian oil, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said: “It is not a question of lack of political will, it…

Magyar Nemzet

War or peace

Partenaire April 5, 2022

This article was published online by the Magyar Nemzet on 3 April 2022. A conversation with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Mr. Prime Minister, according to my calculations, this is the 27th national campaign you are participating in. Yet still, the current one…

Politics

Will the upcoming completion of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline be a blow to Poland and to NATO’s eastern flank?

Olivier Bault May 27, 2021

Poland – With the lifting of US sanctions against companies involved in the construction of the second Nord Stream gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany via the Baltic Sea, the forthcoming completion of this new link is now almost certain. This lifting…

Society

E.U.’s Energy Policy: a Threat to Poland?

Antoine de Longevialle April 30, 2018

Poland - ‘Poland today is not a country that can show Europe the way, it's a country that has decided to go against European interests in many areas’, French president Macron said at a press conference in Bulgaria, in August 2017. This…