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  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
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    Hungary’s PM Viktor Orbán looks on as European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen speaks at the European parliament, in Strasbourg on Wednesday
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Hungary
    EU sues Hungary over new security law

    Brussels says Viktor Orbán’s government violates bloc’s rules on privacy and freedom of expression

    Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in the plenary hall of the Hungarian parliament in Budapest
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Hungary
    EU slashes €200mn of budget payments to Hungary

    Brussels launches procedure against Viktor Orbán’s government after it misses deadline to pay fines

    Viktor Orbán speaks at a press conference in Budapest.
  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
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    Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
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    Slovakia’s government is doubling down despite assassination attempt

    The ruling coalition is continuing to pursue divisive policies in the wake of an attack on premier Robert Fico

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  • Thursday, 14 March, 2024
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    EU parliament sues Ursula von der Leyen’s commission over Hungary funds

    European Commission president unblocked €10bn to secure Budapest’s backing for Ukraine aid

    Ursula von der Leyen
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    EU rule of law
    Brussels signals potential end to rule of law dispute with Poland

    EU officials say Donald Tusk’s judicial reforms could lead to lifting of sanctions procedure by summer

    Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, left, and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels last year
  • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
    EU rule of law
    Fico closes Slovakia anti-corruption office despite EU warnings

    Street protests and parliamentary opposition fail to prevent contested reform to prosecution system

    A demonstration  in Bratislava this month against the Fico government’s plans to amend the penal code and eliminate a national prosecutors’ office
  • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
    EU leaders ‘cautiously optimistic’ on deal with Orbán over Ukraine

    Brussels summit is bloc’s last attempt to secure €50bn funding for Kyiv and prevent irreparable rift

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  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    War in Ukraine
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    Last-minute offer ahead of leaders’ summit falls short of Hungarian prime minister’s demands

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  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    Poland
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    European Commission could unfreeze funds even if Andrzej Duda vetoes PM Donald Tusk’s judicial reforms

    Polish President Andrzej Duda
  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
    Poland
    Top Polish court rules Donald Tusk’s media overhaul is unconstitutional

    Decision is latest pushback against reform agenda of pro-EU prime minister

    Supporters of Poland’s rightwing Law and Justice party demonstrate in Warsaw
  • Friday, 15 December, 2023
    Poland
    Donald Tusk pledges to secure frozen EU billions for Poland

    Newly appointed prime minister plans to unwind judicial reforms that prompted Brussels to withhold funding

    The two politicians shake hands
  • Tuesday, 12 December, 2023
    Bulgaria
    Bulgaria to scrap tax on Russian gas after Hungarian threat

    Sofia relents on transit levy after Budapest warned it would block country’s entry into border-free Schengen area

    A gas-metering plant in Bulgaria
  • Friday, 27 October, 2023
    Sylvie Kauffmann
    Poland’s return to the mainstream is a boon for the EU

    The value of having a pro-European government in Warsaw will be enormous

    Donald Tusk meets European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels
  • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
    Austria joins ‘co-ordinated’ border checks against illegal migrants

    The central European country, Poland and Czech Republic have all reintroduced controls along borders with Slovakia

    Police stop cars at Berg, Austria, near the border with Slovakia
  • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
    News in-depthPoland
    Poland’s lurch to the right ahead of elections unsettles Brussels

    Warsaw’s recent anti-Ukraine rhetoric to placate potential far-right ally has sent shockwaves through EU’s capital

    PiS party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski speaks at a campaign rally
  • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
    George Soros
    Soros foundations to scale back activity in Europe

    NGOs fear funding cuts threaten defence of liberal values in EU

    People attend a rally outside George Soros’s Central European University to protest against the institution being forced out of Budapest by Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán, 2018
  • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
    Germany offers to extend Patriot missile deployment to Poland

    Berlin responds to ‘security needs of our Polish friends’ despite heightened tensions with Warsaw

    Patriot air defence batteries near Zamość in Poland
  • Monday, 31 July, 2023
    Tony Barber
    Ukraine’s EU road is littered with obstacles

    Enlargement into eastern and south-eastern Europe will be impossible without far-reaching reform of the bloc

    Illustration of prime ministers of south-eastern European countries (Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova and Ukraine), eaching holding their country’s flag and being buffetted as a blue bus with the EU stars on it speeds past
  • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
    Grzegorz Kolodko
    Poland can achieve its goals with an open, pro-EU approach

    The nation’s standing as a liberal democracy with an independent judiciary has suffered since 2015

    Andrzej Duda  in suit and tie
  • Saturday, 10 June, 2023
    Europe Express
    Growing pains of EU enlargement Premium content

    The accession of Ukraine and other eastern countries is a geopolitical imperative but not easily achieved

    Ethnic Albanians protest in the south of the ethnically divided city Mitrovica, Kosovo, June 2023. Tensions flared after ethnic Albanian mayors took offices in four towns following elections boycotted by Serbians
  • Saturday, 4 March, 2023
    Europe Express
    Poland commands centre stage in a reshaped Europe Premium content

    Praise for Warsaw’s support for Ukraine is mixed with concern over disputes with Germany and the EU

    US president Joe Biden at the royal castle in Warsaw, Poland.
  • Friday, 16 December, 2022
    Sylvie Kauffmann
    Now could be Poland’s moment — but it needs to play by the rules

    Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has given the country an opportunity, if it can only let go of its old hostilities

    An middle-aged woman and a young boy sit on a bench on a train station platform
  • Sunday, 16 October, 2022
    Poland
    Rule of law stand-off threatens new EU funding to Poland

    Warsaw seeks to convince Brussels of judicial reforms as it tries to unlock billions of euros in economic assistance

    People hold banners during a protest in front of a court in support of judicial independence in Poland
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