Image by The Russian Presidential Press and Information Office Hungary has been locked in a struggle with the European Union over its migrant policy of forcing nations to accept hundreds of thousands of ‘refugees’ that would destroy its culture and way of life. The Hungarian government has made it clear…
Image by Bundesministerium für Europa, Integration und Äusseres The European Commission today launched legal action against three Eastern European countries to retaliate over their refusal to follow orders from Brussels to admit over 160,000 Islamic migrants from Middle Eastern and North African countries per the EU resettlement plan. The three…
Image by https://www.flickr.com/photos/usarmyeurope_images/15243319351/in/set-72157647222797938 Ukrainians were on Sunday celebrating the first day of visa-free access to the European Union, with thousands crossing the border as President Petro Poroshenko proclaimed a dramatic “exit” from Moscow’s grip. The move is symbolic for Kiev, where a pro-EU revolt in 2014 toppled the previous Russia-backed…
Image by Rei-artur Bugaria’s Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva says the nation wants to be free from EU monitoring of its judicial reforms by 2018. She said internal reforms will be completed by the end of that year and the monitoring “can’t go on forever.” On a visit to Bucharest, Romania,…
A war of words between human rights campaigners and Hungary’s right-wing government is set to come to a head on Tuesday (13 June) as a new “Russian-style” law on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) is put to the vote. Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been accused of trying to silence his critics…
Image by Mstyslav Chernov The interior minister for the Czech Republic, Milan Chovanec, said on Monday that the nation will not take any more refugees past the 16 they have already resettled in-country. He stated this decision is final in spite of any financial sanctions the European Union may impose…
Image by © A.Savin, Wikimedia Commons EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager will ask the Russian state-owned, natural gas giant, Gazprom for more concessions to end a six year anti-trust case against the Russian firm on Monday. The meeting is seen as evidence of a thaw in tensions between the EU…
Image by Agencia de Noticias ANDES Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto declared that the Eastern European nation will not back down on laws recently passed that were condemned by the European Parliament. The main issues have been Hungarian legislation against asylum seekers, NGOs, and foreign universities. When asked, Szijjarto said,…
Image by Karel Růžička The governor of the Czech central bank, Jiri Rusnok, says he is in no hurry to raise interest rates due to lower volatility than expected for the Czech Crown. The bank removed a cap on the currency in early April as a first phase of monetary…