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‘Why I decided to move to Ukraine to the frontline in Kharkiv’: Interview with Czech journalist Adéla Knapová
Global Voices
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June 2, 2025
Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city in the east, is only 30 kilometers from the border with Russia, which is now the frontline. Before the February 2022 full-scale invasion by Russia, it was home to nearly 1.5 million people and acted as an...
Nawrocki win deals blow to Poland’s EU agenda
The Financial Times
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June 2, 2025
Karol Nawrocki, Poland’s newly elected president, is expected to block Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s pro-EU reform agenda and offer fresh impetus to rightwing populists across the continent. In a narrow run-off victory on Sunday, Nawrocki — a...
Who is Poland's next president Karol Nawrocki?
News.Az
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Karol Nawrocki, the conservative historian who won Poland's presidential election, cultivated a tough-guy image during his campaign, posting videos of himself at shooting ranges and boxing rings, News.Az reports citing Reuters. While his liberal...
Anti-EU football hooligan ‘pimp’ Karol Nawrocki wins Poland’s presidential election after knife-edge vote
The Sun
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June 2, 2025
ANTI-EU football hooligan "pimp" Karol Nawrocki has won Poland's presidential election. According to the final result from the electoral commission, right-wing historian with a past of football hooliganism Nawrocki, 42, won the election with a...
MAGA Crowd Celebrates Nawrocki Victory in Poland
Visegrad Insight
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June 2, 2025
And so the race comes to an end. After a bitter campaign and roller coaster night, Law and Justice Party-backed candidate Karol Nawrocki has won the Polish presidential election. MAGA leaders from Central and Eastern Europe, most of whom attended...
What Hungary Lost When It Obeyed in Advance
Washington Monthly
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June 1, 2025
In March 1944, the Third Reich occupied Hungary, a country that until then had been one of Berlin’s closest allies. One of those who arrived with the invading forces was a lieutenant colonel in the SS named Kurt Becher. The SS leader Heinrich...
Who is Karol Nawrocki? Conservative historian becomes Poland’s next president
The Independent
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June 2, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Hungary’s Footprint in Bosnia: Resistance Mounts Against Dodik-Orbán Mine
Vsquare
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May 26, 2025
The Orbán government is about to embark on a controversial mining project in Bosnia under the stewardship of President Milorad Dodik. Mayors and residents in the area are prepared to physically resist to stop the project. “I have lived in this...
Hungary’s transparency bill sparks fierce EU debate
Daily News Hungary
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May 25, 2025
The Hungarian bill on the transparency of public life contains provisions that raise concern, as they would impose restrictions on entities that could receive funding in the future, Michael McGrath, the European Commissioner responsible for...
PHOTOS: Hungary will become safer, new pipeline to be built
Daily News Hungary
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May 31, 2025
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó acknowledged Bulgaria’s efforts to enhance energy security and diversify supply at a ceremony to mark the start of construction of the Vertical Gas Corridor on Thursday. New pipeline to connect...
Von der Leyen and Zelensky plan to cut off Russian energy, says FM Szijjártó
Daily News Hungary
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June 14, 2025
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky are preparing to cut off natural gas, crude oil and nuclear fuel supplies from Russia by end-2027, Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, said in an...
Budapest’s sandy “seashore”, Hungary’s largest natural water beach opens with free entrance weekend
Daily News Hungary
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May 30, 2025
Budapest’s sandy “seashore”, Hungary’s largest natural water beach, Lupa Beach, opens next week with a free entrance weekend. Furthermore, all visitors are welcomed with daytime parties on Friday, Saturday and Sunday with kids’ programmes....
‘Something for everyone’: Silver Branch Brewing Co. opens Rockville location
Bethesda Magazine - Maryland
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May 30, 2025
A stack of colorful cans of beer lined the bar, whimsical garden-themed decor adorned the bright green walls and bright circular chandeliers illuminated the light wood tables as Silver Branch Brewing Co.’s Rockville Beerworks opened its doors...
High stakes as Poland heads to round two of presidential election
Al Jazeera
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Warsaw, Poland – The streets of Warsaw were awash with red-and-white flags last Sunday as two presidential hopefuls and their supporters marched through the capital for one last time before Poland takes to polls on Sunday, June 1, in the second...
OMV to Build Major Green Hydrogen Plant in Lower Austria
Rigzone
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May 30, 2025
OMV AG has made a final investment decision to proceed with the construction of an electrolysis facility in Bruck an der Leitha, Lower Austria. The 140-MW electrolyzer - a facility that splits water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen through...
Germany’s Stonehenge? Over 2,000 years of ritual landscape and settlement near Pömmelte
The Past
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May 22, 2025
Between fields of grain and potatoes in the middle of Germany, about 18km south-east of Magdeburg, near the town of Schönebeck, lies one of the most important archaeological landscapes in Germany. The ring sanctuary of Pömmelte, built towards the...
Presidential Runoff and CPAC in Poland, Orbán’s Political World Rocked in Hungary
Vsquare
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May 29, 2025
In this edition of Goulash, we’re dishing out the final, feverish stage of Poland’s presidential campaign—complete with a last-minute media storm over Karol Nawrocki, whose controversial candidacy has brought some mafia vibes into everyday Polish...
FM: Israel is Hungary's friend and strategic ally
About Hungary
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May 29, 2025
Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said Israel is Hungary's friend and strategic ally. Speaking in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Minister Szijjártó said the Jewish state could continue to rely on Hungary in the international arena....
Trump sends video to CPAC Hungary, says they will meet soon, PM Orbán announced 4-step program
Daily News Hungary
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May 29, 2025
“We want a Christian culture, schools based on a national principles, streets and neighbourhoods free from fear, and we want to be proud of our nations; this is the plan of the patriots,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told the Conservative Political...
Westfield Černý Most: Prague’s Trail-Blazing Retail Powerhouse Poised for Its Next Growth Spurt
TechBullion
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June 14, 2025
Share Share Share Share Email Few addresses in Czech retail carry the same gravitas as Westfield Černý Most. Opened as the country’s very first modern shopping mall, the centre has never stopped reinventing itself. Strategically perched at the...