Protests against the Hungarian government continued this weekend, with thousands of people demonstrating in Budapest and other major cities against the so called “slave...
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Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has called on Europeans to vote together in elections for the European parliament next May in order to stop any further...
Two new controversial laws have been approved by the Hungarian parliament, with the country’s opposition, despite making a great deal of noise during the debate by...
More than 500 pro-government media outlets in Hungary are to be brought together in a single umbrella group called the Central European Press and Media Foundation...
Nikola Gruevski’s request for asylum on November 13 came as a suprise, if not a shock, to many in the Hungarian public. The former Macedonian PM, who was sentenced to...
A selection of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which are well worth your time. We start with the Guardian, which claims that a new...
Hungary’s largest opposition party, Jobbik, has asked the European Commission to issue an opinion on the rule of law in Macedonia. The request follows the...
With the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Western media have quickly got back into panic mode, lamenting the triumph of illiberalism and the decline of...
Chinese IT giant Huawei has signed a cooperation agreement with the Hungarian government in order to help Hungary improve its broadband services. It is hoped that the...
Hungary’s residency bond programme had disastrous consequences for the country, reveals a study published by Transparency International Hungary (TI) and the Fiscal...
According to the Hungarian investigative portal Átlátszó, over the last two weeks the Hungarian government has spent 18.2 million euros of taxpayers money on an...
János Áder, the president of Hungary, has said that the country should place “significant importance” to climate protection efforts in order to diminish the grave impact...
Lech Wałęsa, the former Polish president, has told Deutsche Welle that the current Polish government, lead by the Law and Justice Party (PiS) is unfit for office. “These...
