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Analyses |
| Ilona Gizińska, Agata Łoskot-Strachota
In early April, Turkey started supplying natural gas to Hungary. This follows an agreement signed in August 2023 between the Hungarian state-owned energy company MVM and the Turkish BOTAŞ. The contract, which was formally signed during…
OSW Commentary |
| Ilona Gizińska, Paulina Uznańska
As the European Union tightens its stance towards China while the latter continues its expansion in the e-mobility sector, Chinese-Hungarian relations have gained new momentum. After a decade of difficulties in implementing joint…
Analyses |
| Ilona Gizińska
On 26 February, the Hungarian parliament elected Tamás Sulyok, who until recently had served as the head of the Constitutional Court (CC), as the country’s new president. In a secret ballot he was supported by 134 MPs (out of the 198…
Analyses |
| Ilona Gizińska
On 10 February Hungary’s President Katalin Novák resigned. This was the result of a wave of criticism of her, which had been building up for a week, for having pardoned a man convicted of covering up sexual crimes against minors in April…
Analyses |
| Krzysztof Nieczypor, Ilona Gizińska, Łukasz Maślanka
At an extraordinary summit held on 1 February in Brussels, the European Council (hereafter the Council) decided to launch the Ukraine Facility, an instrument intended to provide financial assistance to Kyiv in the period from 2024 to 2027…
Analyses |
| Ilona Gizińska, Krzysztof Dębiec
On 16 January, Slovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico visited Budapest, where he met Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán and president Katalin Novák. After his trip to Prague, this was the second bilateral foreign visit paid by Slovakia’s…
OSW Commentary |
| Ilona Gizińska, Andrzej Sadecki
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Hungarian-US relations have deteriorated even further. Hungary’s close cooperation with Russia and China had already caused concern in Washington. In addition, successive Democratic administrations had…
Analyses |
| Ilona Gizińska, Łukasz Kobeszko
On 13 October 2023, a law came into effect in Bulgaria which introduces an additional transit fee (referred to as the ‘energy levy’) for the import and transit of natural gas from the Russian Federation. The new levy was introduced as part…
Analyses |
| Sławomir Matuszak, Ilona Gizińska, Krzysztof Dębiec, Kamil Całus, Łukasz Kobeszko, Andrzej Sadecki
On 15 September, the European Commission decided not to extend the restrictions on imports of wheat, maize, rapeseed and sunflower from Ukraine which have been in place since May. On the same day, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary unilaterally…
OSW Commentary |
| Ilona Gizińska, Andrzej Sadecki
Despite the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Hungarian government has declared it is fully determined to build the Paks II Nuclear Power Plant, the main contractor of which is Russia’s Rosatom. Several important decisions have been taken…