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Centre-right European Bloc Nears Decision on Hungary’s Fidesz
Newly elected as president of Europe's largest political bloc, the centre-right European People's Party, EPP, Donald Tusk said on Thursday that a group of 'wise men' looking at the currently suspended membership of Hungary's ruling Fidesz party would present its findings by the end of the year.
Croatia’s Ruling Party Hosts European Political Allies
Croatia's ruling party will host Europe's largest political bloc, the centre-right European People's Party, EPP, on Wednesday and Thursday in Zagreb, a major publicity event for Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic but one that has already caused some controversy.
Hungary’s Municipal Elections: The Beginning of the End for Orban?
Opposition forces talked about an "electoral breakthrough" while politicians of Orban's ruling Fidesz party repeated the mantra that Fidesz remained the most popular party by far in a country dominated by orange (the colour of Fidesz).
Who is right? In fact, both were.
Sex and the cities
Poland and Hungary Vote in Critical Elections
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People cast ballots at a polling station in Witow, southern Poland, Photo: EPA-EFE/GRZEGORZ MOMOT
A polling station in a tailor's shop in Czerwonak, in west-central Poland, is decorated for Poland's general election. Photo: EPA-EFE/JAKUB KACZMARCZYK
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EP Committee Confirms Rejection of Trocsanyi and Plumb
The European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs, JURI, on Monday confirmed its rejection of the Hungarian and Romanian candidates for the Commission, Laszlo Trocsanyi of Hungary and Rovana Plumb of Romania. Trocsanyi lost by 13 votes to seven while Plumb lost by 12 votes to nine.
Hungary Voices Outrage After Proposed Commissioner is Vetoed
Hungarian officials reacted with shock on Thursday after Laszlo Trocsanyi, the Hungarian candidate for the Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy post in the European Commission, was deemed unfit to serve as a Commissioner by the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, JURI.
Democracy Digest: The European Commission’s Motley Crew
It is easy to take exception to the "infelicitous semantic choice" of ditsy new job titles that "reflect a sense of detachment from European realities", as one EU law professor put it to The Guardian.
Hungary’s Celebrations Over Enlargement Post May Prove Premature
He is a distinguished legal scholar, specializing in constitutional and European law. No dry academic, he is a pleasant person, with a background in diplomacy.
A two-times ambassador, to Belgium and France, he is one of those few Hungarian politicians who speak both French and English.
‘Pray Before You Tweet’: Hungary Promotes ‘Christian Communication’
A conservative theologist, Semjen is leader of the Christian Democratic People's Party, the pseudo-coalition partner of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's governing Fidesz party. In his doctoral thesis, he famously called Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger "the devil".
Iron Curtain Anniversary No Picnic for German-Hungarian Relations
Memories of the peace demonstration that put a crack in the Iron Curtain on August 19, 1989 loom large in both German and Hungarian psyches — large enough to lure Merkel to Hungary for the first time in more than four years.