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| Ilona Gizińska
On 10 February Hungary’s President Katalin Novák resigned. This was the result of a wave of criticism of her, which had been building up for a week, for having pardoned a man convicted of covering up sexual crimes against minors in April…
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| Jacek Tarociński
The second round of the presidential election in Finland was held on 11 February, and all the votes were counted on the same day. The winner was Alexander Stubb, running on behalf of the centre-right National Coalition Party, which…
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| Paulina Wankiewicz
Since January 2024 the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has been functioning without any judges from Republika Srpska (RS; for the specific features of the political system in BiH, see Appendix).
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| Krzysztof Dębiec
On 8 February, the Slovak parliament adopted a package of controversial amendments, in particular to the Criminal Code. These envisage a radical reduction of penalties for selected crimes (mainly economic crimes including corruption, tax…
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| Jakub Ber
On the evening of 8 February, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky issued a decree dismissing General Valerii Zaluzhnyi from his post as Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF). In his place he appointed Colonel-General…
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| Maria Domańska
On 8 February, the Russian Central Electoral Commission refused to register Boris Nadezhdin as a candidate in the presidential election to be held on 15–17 March. The official reason behind this decision is that the validity of 15% of…
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| Maria Domańska
Tucker Carlson, the US ultra-conservative political commentator and ardent supporter of Donald Trump, conducted an interview with Vladimir Putin which aired on the night of 8–9 February Polish time. Russian propaganda has given wide…
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| Bartosz Chmielewski
On 29 January, Jüri Ratas, Estonia’s former long-time prime minister (2016–2021) and the leader of the Estonian Centre Party (Eesti Keskerakond, CP) until September 2023, announced his decision to join the right-wing Fatherland party (…
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| Michał Bogusz
An anti-corruption campaign has been underway in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) since the middle of last year, which is now effectively amounting to a political purge. However, little information about it has been revealed to the…