After a long series of political disputes, the European People’s Party (EPP) has suspended Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party from its ranks. Though Fidesz has not been formally expelled, this is by far the greatest political defeat the Hungarian strongman...
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Romania is the latest country to become entangled in a wider row regarding the revival of the Soviet-era International Investment Bank (IIB), currently based in Russia...
There is fresh hope that the Central European University (CEU) may stay in Budapest, after the minister president of Bavaria, Markus Söder, started a dialogue with...
When authoritarian ‘illiberal’ democracies developed themselves in Belarus (after 1994) and Russia (after 2000) it was considered a systemic mistake that...
The Hungarian Constitutional Court has rejected a petition by the Hungarian branch of human rights watchdog Amnesty International to scrap a controversial refugee law...
The eagerly-anticipated visit of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Central Europe last week came amidst much hope for renewed US engagement in the region. There had...
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...
Berlin has recently made headlines with vague announcements of its intention to take on more international responsibility. One way it has tried to do this is by being...
A new wheat starch plant worth 33 billion forints (103 million euros) has been opened in Visonta, in northeast Hungary, another milestone for the increasingly productive...
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...
Two emerging Europe countries, Hungary and Serbia, have been downgraded from ‘free’ to ‘partly free’ in the latest edition of the Freedom of the...
In 2018, developments in Europe were guided by a triangle of interactions between German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian...
