Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán spoke at a Rome meeting of the national-conservative Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) party, daily Magyar Nemzet reports.
Piotr Naimski, the minister responsible for strategic energy networks, says former Deputy PM Waldemar Pawlak and former PM Leszek Miller should face a State Tribunal for their actions over energy supplies.
“Neither the leader of Law and Justice nor the leader of Civic Platform want to be PM because they can’t,” says Prof. Kazimierz Kik in an interview with DoRzeczy.pl.
Within the space of a week, Hungary has lost two of its great artists: writer György Konrád was buried this past Sunday, while movie director Sándor Sára died on the same day.
Revenues from tourism could grow by more than 10 percent this year, according to a study by BDO Hungary, the local arm of the world’s fifth biggest consultancy firm.
Netflix has announced that it is reaching for yet another Polish fantasy and science fiction novel to adapt into a series, this time it will be “The Old Axolotl” by Jacek Dukaj. The new series will be titled “Into the Night”.
On Sunday, Czech PM Andrej Babiš (ANO) stated that he believes the State Attorney will halt his prosecution over the Stork´s Nest (Čapí hnízdo) case of a suspected EU subsidy fraud. And it turns out PM Babiš was right.
Although President Andrzej Duda went above and beyond what was expected of him during his speech at the 80th anniversary of WWII, US Vice-President Mike Pence’s speech unfortunately leaves much to wish for, writes Artur Bartkiewicz.
PM Mateusz Morawiecki and US Vice President Mike Pence have signed the “Joint Declaration of Poland and the United States of America on 5G” pact, which is set to improve national security and deepen Polish-American cooperation through 5G network connections.
National legal systems are partly the result of locally specific historical and cultural developments, thus it may be counter-productive to affirm that some systems are inherently better than others, Eszter Párkányi, a researcher at the Budapest-based think-tank Center for Basic Rights, told Mandiner in an interview.
With a class-leading economic growth of 5.2 percent in the second quarter of the year, Hungary’s performance was improving three times as fast as the European Union average, Finance Minister Mihály Varga told state television channel M1.
The anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has emerged as the second largest power after the regional elections in the German federal states of Brandenburg and Saxony.
At a gathering of ambassadors in Prague, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš praised the Prime Ministers of Visegrad countries for fighting for their countries in the recent EU leadership appointment process.
The Czech Interior Ministry has allocated 57 million CZK for the prevention of illegal migration and the protection of refugees. Another five million will be sent to Mauritania as part of the Medevac humanitarian program.
Although the plan to divide the opposition into three political blocks is a sensible idea, it does not guarantee success, writes Bronisław Wildstein. He argues that the situation is reminiscent of Western Europe, where parties differ in names and leaders but do the same things.
The state budget for 2020 is forecasted to be equalized for the first time since Poland’s economic transformations of 1989. “This would be a historic moment,” claims Chief of the PM’s Chancellery Michał Dworczyk.
The head of the parliamentary Commission of Inquiry for VAT fraud, Marcin Horała calls for former PMs Donald Tusk and Ewa Kopacz to be indicted before a State Tribunal.
Following the resignation of presidential minister Krzysztof Szczerski, longtime member of the European Parliament committee on agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski has been chosen as the Polish candidate for the position of EU commissioner for agriculture.
Parents must be aware of what their children are being taught in sex education lessons and who teaches them, warns Polish Bishop Marek Mendyk, the head of the Catholic Education Commission.
