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  • Tuesday, 23 February, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Central Europe braced for third wave of coronavirus

    Czech Republic warns health service may require help from EU states as deaths surge in Slovakia

  • Tuesday, 16 February, 2021
    Global InsightBen Hall
    Assault on media freedom poses another test of EU’s resolve

    Brussels urged to act as Poland and Hungary tighten curbs on independent journalism

  • Saturday, 13 February, 2021
    News in-depth
    Hungary media freedom fears mount as broadcaster goes off air

    Klubradio court ruling part of clampdown on progressive voices in central Europe, say critics

  • Wednesday, 3 February, 2021
    News in-depthSocial Media
    Hungary follows Poland in taking on Big Tech ‘censors’

    Viktor Orban’s ministers fight social media platforms over ‘limits on Christian, conservative, rightwing opinions’

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    Hungary approves Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine

    Country is first EU state to break ranks and give unilateral emergency approval for Covid jab

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    Chinese university to open Budapest campus as Orban tilts to Beijing

    Move comes amid concerns about future of academic freedom in Hungary

  • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
    ECJ ruling deals blow to Hungary’s asylum process

    EU’s top court says aspects of Budapest’s policy breached EU law while separate opinion raps Poland’s judicial clampdown

  • Tuesday, 15 December, 2020
    Hungary limits rights of gay couples and changes electoral rules

    Critics say Orban and his far-right Fidesz party have run roughshod over European values

  • Monday, 14 December, 2020
    Global InsightBen Hall
    EU still lacks a ‘silver bullet’ for bringing autocrats to heel

    Budget stand-off over rule of law ends in neither victory nor defeat for Hungary and Poland

  • Promoted Content
  • Friday, 11 December, 2020
    EU economy
    EU countries agree historic €1.8tn budget and recovery package

    Leaders of Hungary and Poland drop vetoes on rule of law mechanism linked to bloc budget

  • Wednesday, 9 December, 2020
    EU common budget
    EU seeks accord to end impasse on rule of law and budget

    Polish deputy PM says agreement within reach but draft needs signing off by member states and parliament

  • Tuesday, 8 December, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Poland and Hungary will be losers from a budget veto

    Angela Merkel should take a firm stand on behalf of EU in battle over values

  • Monday, 7 December, 2020
    Gideon Rachman
    Europe is right to risk a double ‘no deal’

    The consequences of bad agreements over Brexit and with Poland and Hungary would last decades

  • Friday, 4 December, 2020
    EU common budget
    Brussels warns Poland and Hungary they cannot stop EU recovery fund

    Bloc drawing up plans to push through €750bn project over two nations’ objections

  • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
    European Union
    Brussels considers creating recovery fund without Hungary and Poland

    Commission exploring extreme fallback option if budget impasse cannot be resolved in coming weeks

  • Tuesday, 1 December, 2020
    Orban loyalist caught in Brussels lockdown-busting ‘sex party’

    Fidesz MEP resigns from European parliament after attending the all-male gathering

  • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
    EU eastern tensions
    Hungary and Poland harden stance in EU budget stand-off

    Viktor Orban and Mateusz Morawiecki restate opposition to plan that ties bloc funds to rule of law

  • Wednesday, 25 November, 2020
    Fashion
    How vegan leather brand Nanushka aced affordable luxury

    A new Mayfair store follows a stellar three years for Sandra Sandor’s Hungarian label

  • Tuesday, 24 November, 2020
    Brussels Briefing
    EU’s rule of law mechanism threatens to fall short Premium

    For all the hype, conditionality tool risks never being used against illiberal governments

  • Tuesday, 24 November, 2020
    Romania
    Romania PM berates Poland and Hungary over EU budget veto

    Ludovic Orban says their stance on rule of law ‘is against the whole of Europe’

  • Sunday, 22 November, 2020
    Martin Sandbu
    Shallow self-interest shapes the EU rule of law showdown

    Other leaders should stand firm in resisting Orban and Kaczynski

  • Friday, 20 November, 2020
    EU common budget
    EU scrambles to resolve rule of law stand-off as economy suffers

    Hungary and Poland insist Brussels will have to offer concessions to break deadlock

  • Thursday, 19 November, 2020
    Brussels warns Hungary on Russian Covid jab

    Tensions grow over whether Budapest plans to use Sputnik V vaccine even though it does not have EU regulatory approval

  • Thursday, 19 November, 2020
    EU common budget
    EU budget fight threatens to spill over into climate targets

    Effort to tighten emissions and release funds for green measures hangs on dispute with Poland and Hungary

  • Wednesday, 18 November, 2020
    News in-depthEU eastern tensions
    Hungary and Poland stand firm against EU rule of law conditions

    Both feel unfairly targeted, while febrile domestic politics constrain Warsaw’s room for manoeuvre

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