Hungarian politics, from the system change of 1989 until 2010 – the first time Viktor Orbán achieved a constitutional majority – was characterised by a fundamental...
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The European Union has condemned a new Hungarian campaign attacking both Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros and the president of the European Commission Jean...
Since the last elections to the European Parliament (EP) more than 100 new political parties have been created in the EU. Most of them a result of the populist surge. If...
Now that one of the silliest international disputes of recent decades has been resolved, Greece will no longer veto Macedonia's (now officially North Macedonia)...
As the name suggests, Central Europe lies between Western Europe and Russia. This geographic situation – including a certain lack of natural borders – makes...
Thousands of Albanian opposition supporters clashed with police in the country’s capital Tirana on February 16 at an anti-government rally protesting against what...
A selection of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them here...
Some 45 observers from the parliamentary assembly of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) will deploy to Moldova for parliamentary elections...
A new defence cooperation agreement between the US and Hungary has been signed by the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó and the US...
Hungarian women who have four children or more will be exempt from income tax for life, the country’s prime minister Viktor Orbán has announced Sunday in a move to...
If Poland were to hold parliamentary elections in the coming days, the new progressive party of Robert Biedroń would have reason to be pleased. Just a few days after the...
Between February 6 and 5 April 1989, round-table discussions were held in the Polish capital Warsaw between the ruling communists and the Solidarity opposition movement...
Two emerging Europe countries, Hungary and Serbia, have been downgraded from ‘free’ to ‘partly free’ in the latest edition of the Freedom of the...
