V4 & Romania

Czech legislators plan power transfer, as Zeman unable to perform presidential duties

Czech President Milos Zeman - who was hospitalised on 10 October, the morning after the general election - remains incapable…

4 years ago

There is little alternative to Russian gas for Eastern Europe – Hungary signs 10+5-year deal

Russian state-owned Gazprom and Hungarian energy group MVM signed a ten-year gas-supply agreement at the end of August. Under the deal,…

4 years ago

Czech government could sink millions into ‘Three Seas’ waterway project

After years of non-engagement, the outgoing Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis appears to have discovered a new-found enthusiasm for the…

4 years ago

V4 vie to attract VW battery plant

Volkswagen will decide on the location of a new battery cell plant in Central and Eastern Europe in the first…

4 years ago

Mayor Peter Marki-Zay wins primary vote to run against PM Orban in spring 2022

Peter Marki-Zay, the 49-year-old conservative mayor of Hodmezovasarhely, south Hungary, was announced as the winner of the Hungarian opposition primaries…

4 years ago

CEE capitals becoming ‘victims of own success’

Slovakia's capital city Bratislava is having difficulty getting EU funding after the rapid rise in its GDP per capita in…

4 years ago

Estonia first in Europe for house price rises since 2010, as CEE dominates top ten list

House prices have more than doubled in Estonia and Hungary over the last decade, according to a Eurostat survey that…

4 years ago

President Zeman in hospital, Czechia in limbo

Czech politics is currently in a state of paralysis after President Milos Zeman was hospitalised on election weekend. The head…

4 years ago

Hungary scraps plans to buy neighbors’ agricultural land

Hungary has decided against a plan to expand the country's ownership of agricultural land in some of its neighbors like…

4 years ago

Ciolos steps in to fill Romania’s power vacuum

President Klaus Iohannis has invited Save Romania Union (USR) leader Dacian Ciolos to form a government in Romania, which is…

4 years ago