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The EU's latest bad boy, Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša, finally addressed the press corps in Brussels on Wednesday, if only for a dozen minutes and via zoom, at a joint press conference with European Parliament President David Sassoli.
Six Hungarian opposition parties – including the former far-right Jobbik party as well as the centre-left Momentum party – will hold primaries this year to select joint candidates to contest the 2022 parliamentary election, it was announced this week. The Fidesz party of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has won three successive landslide victories since 2010, in part due to an election system that favours the ruling party over the fragmented opposition. The primary elections, set for September, will select a single opposition candidate in each of Hungary’s 106 electoral districts, while ea...
Is Bulgaria really interested in helping the European Union fight against the theft and misappropriation of EU funds? Its nominations for the office of EU chief prosecutor suggests it isn't.
EU PERCEPTION: Top ranked in terms of corruption, equality, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania George Marinescu "> • Florin Roman, PNL deputy: "It means that at this moment the state does not have the ability to react for the phenomenon of corruption" • Vasile Dîncu, senator PSD: "Through the lens of what is happening, I think that the situation concerning the corruption index in Romania will be worse in the report that will get published early next year" • Cătălin Predoiu, former minister of Justice in the Orban government: "Fighting corruption only through judicial means is not eno...
In Romania, the liberal-conservative right unseats the liberal-conservative left 16 December 2020, Source: pixabay The coronavirus epidemic is raging across Europe, but has hit Central and Eastern Europe harder. Although some countries, such as Lithuania and Moldavia, have been able to hold elections, the very worrying public health situation in Romania did not inspire optimism ahead of Sunday’s legislative elections, in which Romanians were called upon to elect the 330 seats in the Camera Deputaţilor (the lower house) and the 136 seats in the Senatul (the upper house) of the Romani...