Hungary’s ongoing row with Ukraine over minority rights shows no signs of abating, although a meeting set for later this month may lay the foundations for a possible compromise. Earlier this week, Hungary’s foreign minister Péter Szijjártó...
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Our weekly digest 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...
In recent years I have been asked a lot why I chose to stay in Hungary, why I entered politics and why I did not pursue a career abroad like many of my compatriots...
Hungarian-American businessman and philanthropist George Soros has publicly reiterated his support for Budapest’s Central European University (CEU), stating that...
For many of the countries of emerging Europe, 2019 offers double cause for celebration: 30 years since the end of communism in 1989 and 15 years since EU membership in...
Cooperation between China and its 16 partner nations in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region has been a subject of strong criticism since its very inception in...
Hungary’s ambassador to the UK, Kristof Szalay-Bobrovniczky, has set up a pro-government news agency in London. The news agency, called V4NA, will focus on the V4...
The Hungarian government has accepted around 300 Venezuelan refugees fleeing the country’s political and economic turmoil. According to Hungarian news site index.hu, the...
Hungarian politics, from the system change of 1989 until 2010 – the first time Viktor Orbán achieved a constitutional majority – was characterised by a fundamental...
Thousands of people marched through Budapest during the weekend, braving the freezing weather, in what the speaker of the national assembly Laszlo Kövér defined as “an...
Demonstrations have been taking place in Budapest for the past few days, with police using tear gas to disperse thousands of people, mostly youngsters, shouting various...
Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, an influential member of the European People’s Party (EPP), the centre-right grouping in the European parliament, has called for the EPP...
