Hungarian GDP rose above expectations in the third quarter of the year, meaning that next year's economic growth could also exceed current forecasts, Finance Minister Mihály Varga said.
A Polish satellite will soon be launched to test cleaning up space debris. “The space debris market is just starting and we already have Polish companies ready to claim it,” says head of the Polish Space Agency Grzegorz Brona.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has a natural talent for politics just like Donald Trump, U.S. political strategist Steve Bannon told Hungarian commercial television RTL Klub in an interview.
Law and Justice (PiS) must find a new reason to answer the question of why they want to win the next elections. Konrad Kołodziejski of Sieci weekly analyses how the Polish opposition’s newest strategy is proving problematic for the Polish government.
Russia’s recent intelligence offensive against Western Europe is only a part of the new conflict waged by the Kremlin. Colonel Grzegorz Małecki, former Head of Poland’s foreign Intelligence Agency (AW) explains the workings of Russia’s new intelligence-propaganda-business-diplomacy machine.
"I believe that the truth is on my side and am not going to resign despite the demonstrations," Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said in an exclusive interview with Nova TV.
Health Minister and one of the candidates for the CDU presidency Jens Spahn questioned the UN migration pact and called for a vote at the party convention.
An advancement of a civilization cannot be measured by LGBT rights, women quotas or an openness towards migration. Thus, there is no reason why Central European countries should be treated as second-tier European states.
European politicians have to come forward and clearly state that Europe is a Christian continent, said Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó at the conference about the persecution of Christians.
In a letter to PM Mateusz Morawiecki, Viktor Orbán congratulated Poles on the 100th anniversary of their independence. “We are united by a true and selfless friendship,” wrote the Hungarian PM.
Hungary had no hand in former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski fleeing his country to avoid a prison sentence, minister in charge of the Prime Minister's Office Gergely Gulyás said at a press conference.
On a day when the Hungarian national team faced - and beat 2:0 - Estonia in a Nations' League group match, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán attended the premiere of a new Hungarian opera in Milan's Scala.
Poland’s brewery industry is the third largest in Europe. Annually over 40 million hectoliters of beer are produced in over 210 breweries throughout Poland.
The one hundred years of Hungarian solitude is over - Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the plenary meeting of the Hungarian Diaspora Council in Budapest.
The term migration is as old as humanity itself and every continent except Africa had to be populated by migration, Neanderthals and later on Cro-Magnons came to Europe from Africa. So why is the UN pact unacceptable for many, including the Czech Republic? Because we no longer live in pre-history.
Very few nations understand each other like the Poles and the Czechs, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told Hospodářské noviny during his state visit to the Czech Republic.
Via Martin Ehl (an interview with Mateusz Morawiecki)
Polish Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro criticized the previous Civic Platform government’s methods of fighting corruption. “Today, our state is no longer theoretical. It works practically, efficiently and quickly,” says the minister commenting on the KNF corruption scandal.
Russian gas giant Gazprom is on the verge of losing the Polish market. Poland’s recent LNG investments and the Baltic Pipe have sent the Russian media into a scramble.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjartó is to discuss Czech-Hungarian relations with Tomáš Petříček, the new head of Czech diplomacy. Szijarto will also attend a conference on the persecution of Christians throughout the world.
The Visegrád Four countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) will form a joint European army group that will become operational in the second half of 2019, Hungarian Defense Minister Tibor Benkő told Hungarian media after a meeting with his V4 counterparts in the High Tatras.
Even if Babiš’s government lost the confidence vote, President Miloš Zeman would still appoint Andrej Babiš to form a government. The president made his declaration during the TV show ‘A week with the President’.
