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09/09/2025

Prime Minister Robert Fico appeared at ease with Russia’s leader in Beijing, only to strike a far more cautious tone days later in Uzhhorod with Ukraine’s president.
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Prime Minister Robert Fico appeared at ease with Russia’s leader in Beijing, only to strike a far more cautious tone days later in Uzhhorod with Ukraine’s president.

08/09/2025

The new data comes as anti-immigration parties across Europe gain support, including in Czechia where a general election will be held next month.
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The new data comes as anti-immigration parties across Europe gain support, including in Czechia where a general election will be held next month.

07/09/2025

Russia has won the war, Ukraine will be divided, and the EU is falling apart.” Hungary’s PM opened his election campaign on Sunday with a foreign policy speech, offering Ukraine a strategic partnership, but rejecting EU membership. But Orban fell short of mentioning corruption or economic issues, the gravest concerns of the Hungarian electorate.

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For the first time in 15 years, Viktor Orban faces the real possibility of losing power as Peter Magyar’s opposition party leads in the polls. The outcome could reshape Hungary’s foreign policy, with direct implications for the EU.

05/09/2025

Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, cut a lonely figure in Beijing this week as the only EU leader to attend China’s World War II anniversary events, standing in a line-up alongside Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un and other authoritarian rulers – an image analysts described as a snapshot of a world order without the West.

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Elsewhere, Trump suggests to Nawrocki that US could even increase the number of troops it has stationed in Poland; Babis injured on campaign trail after elderly Czech man hits him on the head with a crutch; and Hungarians are still strong EU supporters.

05/09/2025

Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, cut a lonely figure in Beijing this week as the only EU leader to attend China’s World War II anniversary events.

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Elsewhere, Trump suggests to Nawrocki that US could even increase the number of troops it has stationed in Poland; Babis injured on campaign trail after elderly Czech man hits him on the head with a crutch; and Hungarians are still strong EU supporters.

04/09/2025

In 2020, hundreds of thousands of people in Belarus took to the streets to protest against Aleksandr Lukashenko stealing the presidential election. Belarusian doctor Yauhen Zhuk, who is today exiled in Poland, shares his story.

03/09/2025

03/09/2025

Romanian migrants recruited by employment agencies often end up in some of the toughest and lowest-paid jobs in the Netherlands, most notably in the meat industry.

02/09/2025

Central European leaders are heading to Beijing to attend China’s WWII Victory Day on Wednesday. Along with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Slovak PM Robert Fico, Hungarian Minister Foreign Minister Péter Szijjarto, an avid fan of both China and Russia, said he will attend. His boss, PM Viktor Orbán, won’t be however.

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For the first time in 15 years, Viktor Orban faces the real possibility of losing power as Peter Magyar’s opposition party leads in the polls. The outcome could reshape Hungary’s foreign policy, with direct implications for the EU.

02/09/2025

Former Czech PM and opposition leader Andrej Babis was attacked Monday at a rally in Moravia-Silesia and hit on the head with a crutch. The ANO chairman reportedly did not suffer any serious injuries, and the elderly attacker was arrested on the spot. While government leaders were quick to condemn the act, ANO reps blamed it on their "hate campaign" based on "fear and division".

With many Czech voters still undecided on whom to vote for or whether to even vote at all, the final turnout could be key to deciding the outcome of October’s general election.

01/09/2025

With many Czech voters still undecided on whom to vote for or whether to even vote at all, the final turnout could be key to deciding the outcome of October’s general election.

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With many Czech voters still undecided on whom to vote for or whether to even vote at all, the final turnout could be key to deciding the outcome of October’s general election.

29/08/2025

The new Czech documentary Change My Mind has sparked an intense debate in the country over the growing division of Czech society into two seemingly irreconcilable bubbles.

Elsewhere, Hungary takes EU to court and bans Ukrainian military leader; government again postpones discussion on Slovak Academy of Sciences' analysis of mRNA vaccines; new Polish president locks horns with government by vetoing bills.