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Analyses |
| Krzysztof Nieczypor
On 21 September the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament of Ukraine, voted to amend the Law on National Minorities (Communities). All the parliamentary groups unanimously voted in its favour (only three MPs abstained from voting, no one opposed…
OSW Commentary |
| Sandra Baniak
For many years, it seemed that the Adriatic ports would not offer any significant competition to those in the North and the Baltic Seas in their rivalry for Central European markets. However, in recent times investments in port and access…
OSW Commentary |
| Ilona Gizińska, Andrzej Sadecki
Despite the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Hungarian government has declared it is fully determined to build the Paks II Nuclear Power Plant, the main contractor of which is Russia’s Rosatom. Several important decisions have been taken…
Analyses |
| Ilona Gizińska
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
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
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…
Analyses |
| Krzysztof Dębiec
Slovakia’s foreign minister Rastislav Káčer has once again sharply criticised the actions of Viktor Orbán’s government. In a post on his Facebook profile published on the evening of 20 February, referring to Budapest’s policy on the war,…
Analyses |
| Kamil Całus, Andrzej Sadecki
On 17 December, the president of Azerbaijan and the prime ministers of Georgia, Hungary and Romania signed a strategic partnership agreement in Bucharest on the development and transport of green energy. The event was also attended by the…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Sadecki
At a meeting of the Council of the European Union on 12 December, EU member states accepted a National Recovery Plan (NRP) for Hungary worth €5.8 billion, while at the same time, under the so-called conditionality mechanism, it agreed to…
Analyses |
| Marta Szpala
During a meeting in Belgrade on 16 November, Serbia’s president Aleksandar Vučić, Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán and Austria’s chancellor Karl Nehammer signed a memorandum on cooperation to counter illegal migration flows.