Hungary’s housing policies are failing, the governor of the national bank (MNB) György Matolcsy has claimed, urging the government to draft new policies to redress what he views as a weakness of the Hungarian economy. According to an opinion piece...
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Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán has a long history of avoiding questions from independent media outlets. Using the playbook of US President Donald Trump, he has a...
The companies of Lőrinc Mészáros (pictured above, right), a childhood friend of the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, enjoyed another good year in 2019. According...
The Central and Eastern European region remains “particularly vulnerable” to the influence of authoritarian regimes such as Russia, China and Turkey, since democracies...
We started the year with a bang, proclaiming Romania, then led by prime minister Viorica Dancila, unready to take on the presidency of the Council of the European Union...
Despite a much-heralded National Family Protection Plan approved early in February, Hungary’s demographic trends in 2019 have been anything but positive. According to...
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...
The European Union has left Poland out of a 2050 climate neutrality agreement that will see carbon emissions reduced to zero by 2050. The final set of summit conclusions...
Hungarian IT infrastructure company 4iG has withdrawn from a transaction to buy T-Systems, a Hungarian subsidiary of German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom and...
Clichés about Central and Eastern Europe are probably as common in the press as jokes in Boris Johnson’s speeches. And although their repertoire might look repetitive to...
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...
The European Parliament has approved Hungaryʼs nomination for European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi, who has served as Hungary’s...
