At the ČSSD leadership meeting, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) said the minority ANO-Social Democrat (ČSSD) government is very successful and both parties will keep the government going despite speculations of a crisis.
Suzuki Hungary – the local arm of Suzuki Motor Corp. – is fighting the establishment of a branch of metalworkers’ trade union in its Esztergom, northern Hungary plant.
Czech Minister of Industry and Trade Karel Havlíček and Hungarian Minister of Innovation and Technology László Palkovics agreed to establish a joint V4 platform for energy research so that the Visegrad countries can become the technology leaders in the energy sector.
The ratio of people with a higher education degree has increased by 7.6 percentage points to 34 percent thus Hungary has honored its pledge made in the EU 2020 program, but the country is still seven percentage points behind the EU average.
This autumn´s Nobel Peace Prize nomination will have two female contestants: Greta Thunberg and the German marine activist Carola Rackete. They are both perceived to be a certain kind of new messiah, chosen ones loved by the media and worshipped by the public.
Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová has held talks with Polish President Andrzej Duda in Warsaw. They discussed security, the situation in the Ukraine, cooperation within the V4 countries and judicial reform in Poland.
Captain Carola Rackete has been feted by much of the media and many politicians, even received. She is regarded as a symbol and an example. Marek A. Cichocki argues that it should be a symbol of the EU’s migration fiasco.
On the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War, Poland will show an exhibition entitled “The Struggle and the Agony” in 80 cities throughout the world. The exhibition is a joint project by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the World War II Museum.
Gitanas Nausėda, the new President of Lithuania, and Polish President Andrzej Duda have held talks in Warsaw. Both stressed the importance of Polish-Lithuanian cooperation, especially with regard to energy and infrastructure.
Ursula von der Leyen has been elected President of the EC thanks to votes from the ECR group dominated by Poland’s ruling conservative “Law and Justice” (PiS) party.
American giant Amazon will open a new logistic center in Lower Silesia to meet increasing demand for the service it provides from both consumers and companies wishing to sell their products.
Romania will cut privileged pensions and free student travel in an attempt to reign in its budget deficit, Finance Minister Eugen Teodorovici announced on Monday.
Aleksandra Dulkiewicz, the Mayor of Gdańsk is expected to fight the government all the way over its plans to take over land and build a museum at the site of the iconic defense of the Polish outpost Westerplatte.
“We want a Catholic Poland and Christian Europe in which God is the guarantor of moral order in the life of the individual and society, and in private and public life,” said Bishop Ignacy Dec at the Jasna Góra shrine.
An unusual billboard has appeared outside one of the IKEA stores in Lublin. It has been put up in reaction to the fact that IKEA fired one of its staff for quoting the bible over LGBT carrier bags.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has appointed Judit Varga as Hungary’s new Justice Minister, replacing László Trócsányi. “A new striker joins the team. Good luck, Madam Minister!”
A surge in Croatian guest accommodations may have lowered vacation costs in the local currency, but Croatia’s recent plans to speed up Eurozone accession means that the country has become more expensive for Hungarians, Magyar Hírlap writes.
