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Poland elects nationalist Karol Nawrocki as president
CBC/Radio-Canada
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June 2, 2025
Nationalist opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki narrowly won Poland's presidential election, results showed Monday, delivering a major blow to the centrist government's efforts to cement Warsaw's pro-European orientation. Nawrocki secured 50.89...
Hungarian FM holds talks with Sergey Lavrov
Eurasia Magazine
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Speaking before the meeting of the Defence Council, the minister pointed out that based on the brutal military actions of recent days, one can conclude that the war in Ukraine will last longer than expected. Therefore, the Hungarian government...
Poland’s pro-European stance at risk after nationalist Nawrocki wins presidency
BusinessLIVE
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Warsaw, Poland — Nationalist opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki narrowly won Poland’s presidential election, results showed on Monday, delivering a major blow to the centrist government’s efforts to cement Warsaw’s pro-European orientation. In a...
Poland’s Nawrocki swings into a narrrow lead in presidential vote
Stabroek News
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June 2, 2025
WARSAW (Reuters) – Eurosceptic nationalist Karol Nawrocki appeared to edge ahead in Sunday’s presidential election in Poland, late exit polls showed, with the ballot seen as a test of the nation’s support for a pro-European course versus Donald...
8 injured on Ryanair flight after severe turbulence forces emergency landing in Germany
EasternEye
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June 6, 2025
Eight passengers were injured when a Ryanair flight from Berlin to Milan encountered severe turbulence and was forced to divert to an airport in southern Germany, Bavarian police have confirmed. The incident occurred on Wednesday evening, with the...
Orban Bets on New Astronaut to Launch Hungary Into Space Future
Balkan Insight
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June 6, 2025
Yet it is not only in space research but the space industry where Hungary sees a future. The government-close communications company 4iG recently created a space and defence arm, which will spearhead the drive to establish a whole space and...
Young Slovak’s breakthrough wins him grand prize at world science competition
The Slovak Spectator
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June 6, 2025
Every week The Slovak Spectator brings you a selection of three short stories from across Slovakia from which pessimism and negativity are absent. Young Slovak talent wins top prize at world’s largest high-school science fair Article continues...
Poland: Nawrocki Takes Slim Lead In Presidential Vote, Exit Polls Show
StratNews Global
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June 1, 2025
Home Europe Poland: Nawrocki Takes Slim Lead In Presidential Vote, Exit Polls Show Nawrocki, 42, an amateur boxer who ran a national remembrance institute, campaigned on a promise to ensure government economic and social policies favour Poles over...
Polish eurosceptic Nawrocki wins presidential vote, electoral commission says
The Straits Times
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June 1, 2025
Mr Karol Nawrocki flashing the victory sign in front of supporters as exit polls are announced at the Mala Warszawa Theatre in Warsaw, Poland.PHOTO: AFP WARSAW – Nationalist and eurosceptic Karol Nawrocki won Poland’s presidential election, the...
TikTok deploys Czech election task force amid disinformation fears
EurActiv
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June 6, 2025
TikTok is taking pre-emptive action ahead of the Czech October parliamentary elections by deploying a 53-member team of local moderators to monitor content on the platform. The move, part of a broader push to protect electoral integrity in Europe,...
Rare night-shining clouds visible again over Czechia
Radio Prague International
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June 5, 2025
A rare type of cloud known as noctilucent, or night-shining, is once again visible over Czechia and the rest of Central Europe, astronomer Petr Horálek from the Institute of Physics in Opava said on Thursday. These clouds form unusually high in...
What A Difference A Day Makes: ‘My Austrian piano teacher connected me directly to Liszt’
Irish Examiner
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June 5, 2025
I met Felicitas LeWinter in June 1976 in Belfast. I was 16. She was a pianist who had studied with Emil von Sauer, who had studied with Franz Liszt. I met her because my father bumped in to an old friend of his in the GPO in Belfast. This friend...
First Heat Alert of Summer 2025 Issued as Temperatures Soar in Hungary
XpatLoop
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Hungarian authorities have announced the nation’s first heat alert of the summer, with scorching temperatures expected to grip Budapest and the entire country from Thursday to Sunday night. This second-degree heat warning signals the onset of an...
“A million euros a day fine is an investment in our security”—Hungarian MEP
The European Conservative
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June 5, 2025
András László is a member of the European Parliament for the Hungarian Fidesz party and serves as a government commissioner tasked with investigating foreign funding for political activities in Hungary. A firm defender of national sovereignty,...
Hungary and Slovakia expand Russian fuel use while EU cuts imports
Euromaidan Press
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May 30, 2025
Hungary and Slovakia continue to rely heavily on Russian oil, gas, and nuclear fuel, despite having technical and economic capacity to switch to alternative sources, according to a detailed joint report by the Centre for the Study of Democracy...
Austrian OMV sold 5% in Ghasha concession to LUKOIL for $594 million
AK&M
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AK&M 30 May 2025 19:05 The Austrian oil and gas company OMV AG has sold a stake in a concession for natural gas production on the UAE continental shelf to Lukoil Gulf Upstream L.L.C. S.P.C. This is reported in a press release from OMV. As part of...
In Poland, Liberalism Takes Yet Another Hit
Jacobin
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To the surprise of commentators both in Poland and abroad, prime minister Donald Tusk’s candidate, the highly educated, internationally respected liberal Rafał Trzaskowski, did not become Poland’s next president. A former member of the European...
Austrian Jewish activists plan major anti-Zionism congress
5Pillars
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May 30, 2025
Europe’s first ever anti-Zionist Jewish Congress is to be held in Austria to platform prominent Jews who denounce Zionism, the weaponisation of anti-Semitism, and Israel’s appalling crimes against the Palestinians. The congress, planned to go...
Hungary Moves to Silence Its Free Press — The EU Must Act Now
Vsquare
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May 29, 2025
Hungarian Fidesz is effectively outlawing the free press — and, more broadly, democratic public debate. With its ‘transparency’ bill proposal, introduced on May 13, Fidesz is aligning itself with the authoritarian tactics seen in Putin’s Russia....
How Poland’s new conservative President, a Trump ally, may upend its EU relations
The Indian Express
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June 4, 2025
Karol Nawrocki, a 42-year-old historian and political newcomer, narrowly won Poland’s presidency on Monday (June 2). Backed by the nationalist-conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS), he defeated centrist rival Rafał Trzaskowski, with 50.89 per...