The Ludwig Museum, one of the most important contemporary art venues in Budapest, recently censored (or, as the author stresses, self-censored), a controversial portrait...
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After waiting almost two and a half years, Hungary’s nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orbán has finally made it to the White House. The long-awaited meeting of the...
Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán has withdrawn his endorsement of European People’s Party lead candidate Manfred Weber for European Commission president...
RM international, a company controlled by Viktor Orbán’s right-hand-man Lőrinc Mészáros, is part of a consortium that has won the 2.3 billion euros tender to upgrade the...
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...
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...