Cross-border emergency services between Hungary and Romania
The two countries started a series of joint Cabinet meetings in 2003. One of the proposals on next week’s agenda to co-ordinate ambulance and firefighting units around the border, using the nearest...
View ArticleCentral and Eastern European finance ministers are queueing… in Washington
After the IMF has formally accepted huge loan requests from Hungary and Ukraine (and also Iceland on the other periphery of the European economic area), Belarus, Bulgaria, Latvia, Romania, Poland,...
View ArticleGas wars: Rupture in Industrial Production, EU Citizens Without Heating
There is a serious gas shortage in Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Serbia. After the show of the French presidency, the European Union is under a real foreign pressure that effects a large...
View ArticleBorder Settlement Between Romania and Ukraine
Snake Island Alhough the Romanian president has an appetite for redrawing the maps of Europe, this time his government let the work done by the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The two...
View ArticleThe Cozma Murder Case: A New Form Of Ethnic Tension in Central Europe
A tragic act of crime, the killing of Marian Cozma, a great Romanian handball player, has sparkled ethnic tension in the region to an all-high point. The scene is Hungary, the victims are Romanian and...
View ArticleRomania Risks EU Funds Freeze Over Lingering Corruption
Romania could follow Bulgaria by having millions of euros in EU funding frozen after the bloc’s executive issued a critical report Thursday, Feb. 12, suggesting Bucharest was not doing enough to fight...
View ArticleEmergency Summit: A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
“Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand” – Matthew 12:25 The former East bloc new member states have had a great...
View ArticleRepublic of Moldova Feels Romanian?
Republic of Moldova feels Romanian CC Klearchos Kapoutsis As protests are widespread in Moldova after the elections, where the pragmatic, pro-EU Communist Party [sic!] won a comfortable majority, the...
View ArticleVisegrad+ Energy Summit: Old Power with New Aims?
The Visegrad Group of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia was originally formed to co-ordintate the historically interlinked country’s efforts to change from planned to market economy and...
View ArticleNew Citizenship Law, Hungarian Passports… and Dumbest Afoe Article Ever?
Douglas Muir calls Stratfor’s article on the new Hungarian citizenship law – republished on Serbia’s B92 – as the dumbest Stratfor article ever. Certainly not a very intelligent analysis, however, the...
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