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Analyses | | Krzysztof Nieczypor, Ilona Gizińska, Łukasz Maślanka

The EU approves financial assistance for Ukraine and negotiates military assistance

At an extraordinary summit held on 1 February in Brussels, the European Council (hereafter the Council) decided to launch the Ukraine Facility, an instrument intended to provide financial assistance to Kyiv in the period from 2024 to 2027…
Analyses | | Ilona Gizińska, Krzysztof Dębiec

The Fico-Orbán meeting an Article-7 alliance

On 16 January, Slovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico visited Budapest, where he met Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán and president Katalin Novák. After his trip to Prague, this was the second bilateral foreign visit paid by Slovakia’s…
Analyses | | Ilona Gizińska, Łukasz Kobeszko

Bulgaria introduces additional fees for Russian gas transit

On 13 October 2023, a law came into effect in Bulgaria which introduces an additional transit fee (referred to as the ‘energy levy’) for the import and transit of natural gas from the Russian Federation. The new levy was introduced as part…
Analyses | | Sławomir Matuszak, Ilona Gizińska, Krzysztof Dębiec, Kamil Całus, Łukasz Kobeszko, Andrzej Sadecki

Reactions to the EUs lifting of restrictions on grain imports from Ukraine

On 15 September, the European Commission decided not to extend the restrictions on imports of wheat, maize, rapeseed and sunflower from Ukraine which have been in place since May. On the same day, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary unilaterally…
Analyses | | Ilona Gizińska

Another Hungarian veto aimed at Ukraine

According to press reports, the Hungarian government is blocking the payment to EU member states of the next tranche (€500 million) of funding from the European Peace Facility (EPF), which reimburses the military support provided to Kyiv…
Analyses | | Ilona Gizińska

Franciss pilgrimage to Hungary problematic visions of peace

Pope Francis paid an official visit to Budapest on 28–30 April, the first papal pilgrimage to Hungary since John Paul II’s visit in 1996. Although the current pope had already been to the country’s capital on 7 September 2021, that visit…
Analyses | | Ilona Gizińska, Filip Rudnik, Andrzej Sadecki

Szijjártó in Moscow Hungary maintains its energy cooperation with Russia

Hungary’s foreign and trade minister Péter Szijjártó met Aleksander Novak, Russia’s deputy prime minister in charge of energy, and Rosatom head Alexei Likhachev in Moscow on 11 April. He stressed that despite the expected criticism from…