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…
Austria / Hungary / Serbia – A few dozen scattered demonstrators gathered at Ballhausplatz in front of the Austrian Federal Chancellery last Friday, July 7 to protest the Austro-Hungarian-Serbian summit devoted to the fight against illegal immigration. The three countries were represented…
Teša Tešanović is one of the most famous vloggers in Serbia and the countries of the former Yugoslavia. On the occasion of a trip to Budapest, he gave an interview to the Hungarian media Magyar Jelen . The Visegrád Post offers…
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…
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…
Croatia – Croatia’s social democrat President Zoran Milanović, who is known for his outspokenness and disregard for political correctness, has made unusual comments about the war in Ukraine. Referring to Kyiv’s declared ambitions to reclaim all of its territory currently occupied by…
European Union - The interior ministers of the 27 European Union member states met in Brussels on December 8 to decide on adding three additional countries to the bloc’s Schengen Zone: Croatia, Romania, and Bulgaria. Bulgaria and Romania had joined the EU…
Hungary/Serbia/Austria – Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić welcomed Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Chancellor Karl Nehammer to Belgrade on Wednesday, 16 November, for a second trilateral summit involving Serbia, Hungary, and Austria.
The three leaders discussed Serbia’s application for membership of the European…
Interview with Janez Janša, former Prime Minister of Slovenia and leader of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka, SDS): "The political processes in Europe over the past decade and a half turned away from democracy."
Janez Janša has been one of…
Serbia – When Hungarians went to the polls last Sunday to renew their national parliament, the Serbs were holding a presidential election in which incumbent President Aleksandar Vučić was re-elected for a second term with nearly 60 percent of the vote.
A…
This article was published online by the Magyar Nemzet on 20 March 2022.
“We have invested years into building up the Serbian-Hungarian friendship,” said Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Saturday to Serbian journalists on the train from Belgrade to Novi Sad.
"Your…
Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic has had an absolutely phenomenal 2021 season. A national hero in his native Serbia, he is by far one of the greatest athletes in the history of the Balkan country. After winning the Australian Open for the…