Hungary – Last year, Hungary opted to only apply for the grant component of the NextGeneration EU recovery plan while waiving its loan component. Faced today with an influx of Ukrainian refugees, the Hungarian authorities have decided to ask the European Union…
Poland – A direct consequence of the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine is that diplomatic consultations have been intensifying within the European Union. One such consultation occurred when Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki received his Dutch counterpart on Monday, 21 March…
The following editorial was written by former Czech president Václav Klaus, and was submitted for publication at the Visegrád Post by the Václav Klaus Institute.
The suffering of hundreds of thousands of civilians as well as that of soldiers (and not…
Poland/Georgia – Two days after visiting Kyiv to reaffirm Europe's support for Ukraine along with his Slovenian and Czech counterparts, Janez Janša and Petr Fiala, as well as his deputy prime minister and PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński, Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki travelled…
Hungary – The American media outlet Bloomberg has published an article entitled “War Next Door Boosts Orban Campaign to Keep Power in Hungary” in the wake of the Hungarian Prime Minister’s speech for the 15 March 1848 celebrations. Based on a poll…
Central Europe – As Russia’s war in Ukraine entered its fourth week, more than three million Ukrainians, mostly women and children, had taken refuge in neighbouring countries as of 15 March, according to figures from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees…
Ukraine – Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki, Czech PM Petr Fiala, Slovenian PM Janez Janša, and Polish Deputy PM Jarosław Kaczyński travelled by train to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Tuesday, 15 March, to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and express support…
Hungary/Poland/EU – The European Parliament voted on 10 March, by 478 votes to 155, in favour of enforcing financial sanctions against Hungary and Poland after the ECJ’s rejection of the two countries’ objections to the “rule of law” conditionality mechanism. However, in…
Ukraine/Germany – Speaking on Sunday, 6 March on the weekly political programme presented by Anne Will on the first German television channel, ARD, Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba insisted on his country’s refusal to give up its sovereignty and he pointed…
Hungary/Poland – By Thursday, 10 March, the war in Ukraine had been going on for a fortnight. Hungary and Poland found themselves on the front lines of a massive influx of Ukrainian refugees, and had already taken in more than 1.5 million…
Hungary/Poland – As a consequence of Russia’s war in Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of refugees are pouring into bordering countries, mostly Poland and Hungary but also Slovakia, Romania, and Moldova. Among those fleeing the war there are not only Ukrainians but also…
Poland/Ukraine – With the war in Ukraine triggered by Russia’s invasion having been going on for nearly a fortnight, Poland, Ukraine’s main supporter in the European Union and the Atlantic Alliance, indicated on Tuesday its willingness to hand over all of its…