Border controls reintroduced between Central European countries because of...
Central Europe – Just a few days after Germany decided to reinstate border controls at its borders with Poland and Czechia, those two countries did the same last week along their borders with Slovakia,...
View ArticleSlovakia suspends arms deliveries to Ukraine
Slovakia – The victory of Robert Fico and his party, Smer-SD, in Slovakia’s parliamentary elections on Saturday, September 30 is already having consequences, even though a new government coalition has...
View ArticleSlovakia’s Smer and Hlas suspended from Party of European Socialists
Slovakia – Following early parliamentary elections on September 30, Slovakia’s two social democratic parties – Smer-SD and Hlas-SD of former prime ministers Robert Fico and Peter Pellegrini,...
View ArticleFico becomes prime minister of Slovakia again in a coalition with the...
Slovakia – Three and a half weeks after the September 30 parliamentary elections and after tensions over her refusal to accept a minister that had been presented by the Slovak National Party (SNS, a...
View ArticlePéter Szijjártó pleads for peace in Ukraine in a visit to Minsk
Hungary/Belarus – Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó travelled to Minsk on October 26 to take part in the international “Eurasian Security” conference held in the...
View ArticleViktor Orbán in Kazakhstan for the 10th Summit of Turkic States
Hungary – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán visited Kazakhstan on November 1 together with his Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Péter Szijjártó and Finance Minister Mihály Varga. The Hungarian...
View ArticleCzech Prime Minister busy comparing prices between Germany and Czechia
Czechia – In a video posted on his Facebook account on November 5, which the German and Czech press have both commented on, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala offered concrete examples of food products...
View ArticleControversy over four Polish MEPs having their immunity lifted by the...
Poland/EU – On November 9, the European Parliament decided to lift the parliamentary immunity of four Polish MEPs from the Law and Justice (PiS) delegation to the European Parliament’s European...
View ArticlePolish lorry drivers are blocking the border with Ukraine
Poland/Ukraine – Before it was the farmers, and now it is the Polish lorry drivers who feel that they are being subjected to unfair competition from their Ukrainian colleagues. The money.pl website...
View ArticleUnborn child Ulma declared martyr for the faith
Poland – September 10th, 2023, an unborn child left its mark on the world. The Catholic Church declared baby Ulma a martyr for the faith and beatified the child, alongside the baby’s parents and six...
View ArticleEmilewicz calls for pressure to be maintained on Russia
Poland – “This is not the time for a ceasefire,” Jadwiga Emilewicz told Visegrad 24, re-iterating the support that the PiS administration showed to the Ukraine during her years as Poland’s Deputy Prime...
View ArticleInvestigation committees and cordon sanitaire policy against the biggest...
Poland – A month and a half after Law and Justice’s Pyrrhic victory in the Polish parliamentary elections, with all observers predicting a very short life for Mateusz Morawiecki’s new government that...
View ArticleHungarian veto against new Ukraine aid package stirs new tensions in the EU
Hungary – Hungary voted against the European Union’s new aid package for Ukraine at the December 14-15 European summit in Brussels. This decision, which blocked its adoption, provoked mixed reactions...
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