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| Jakub Groszkowski
The Social Democratic party, Smer-SD, won the early parliamentary election in Slovakia on 10 March. With a support level at 44%, which guarantees a majority of seats in parliament, Smer-SD outpaced the ruling centre-right parties.
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| Jakub Groszkowski
The parliamentary election in Slovakia, scheduled for 10 March, is likely to see the government of the left-wing Smer-SD party led by Robert Fico return to power and to seal the disintegration of the centre-right camp.
Analyses |
| Andrzej Sadecki
On 22 February, the European Commission recommended the Council of the EU to suspend the payment of 495 million euros from the Cohesion Fund to Hungary from the beginning of 2013. This equates to 0.5% of Hungary’s GDP and 29% of the…
Analyses |
| Jakub Groszkowski
The Czech Republic, which on 30 January at the summit of the European Council refused to sign the fiscal compact along with the UK, is becoming more active in the EU. Together with the group of 11, mostly new EU member states, on 17…
Analyses |
| Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
On 8 February, the European Court of Auditors published an audit report on the shut down nuclear power plants in Bulgaria (Kozloduy), Lithuania (Ignalina) and Slovakia (Bohunice). It revealed a significant delay in the EU-funded process…
Analyses |
| Jakub Groszkowski
President Václav Klaus announced in his letter to Prime Minister Petr Nečas that he would not sign the intergovernmental agreement introducing a fiscal compact, an instrument for the coordination of the economies of eurozone member…
Analyses |
| Tomasz Dąborowski, Andrzej Sadecki
On 17 January, the European Commission decided to apply EU law infringement proceedings against Hungary. The European Commission found that the lowering of the retirement ages for judges and public prosecutors from 70 to 62 years was…
Analyses |
| Jakub Groszkowski
Two weeks after the Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov’s visit to Prague, which was aimed at thawing Czech-Ukrainian relations, the Czech government has given political asylum to Oleksandr Tymoshenko, the husband of the former Prime…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Sadecki
Fidesz led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban in its coalition with the Christian Democrats has a constitutional majority in Hungarian parliament. Since it took over power in spring 2010, it has been implementing a programme aimed at the…
Analyses |
| Jakub Groszkowski
The lower house of the Czech parliament on 14 December adopted the governmental constitution amendment introducing direct presidential elections. This was supported by both coalition and opposition MPs. The decision to relinquish the…