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Analyses | | Sławomir Matuszak

Oil for a loan EU unlocks financial assistance for Ukraine

On 22 April, Slovak Deputy Prime Minister Denisa Saková and Hungary’s MOL oil company confirmed that Ukraine had resumed the transit of Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia via the southern branch of the Druzhba pipeline. Supplies along…
Analyses | | Witold Rodkiewicz

Russia after Orbáns defeat putting a brave face on a difficult situation

Russia’s initial official reactions to the opposition’s electoral triumph in Hungary have been largely calm and pragmatic, although Vladimir Putin has not congratulated the winner. When asked about this, the Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry…
Analyses | | Ilona Gizińska

Elections in Hungary the triumph of Péter Magyar

The parliamentary elections on 12 April produced a landmark result, granting the opposition a constitutional majority and bringing to an end Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule. Based on 98.9% of the votes counted so far, the TISZA party secured a…
Analyses | | Andrzej Sadecki, Tadeusz Iwański

A dispute with Ukraine fuels Orbáns election campaign

Tensions in Hungarian–Ukrainian relations have been escalating for several weeks. The immediate cause of the current escalation was the destruction, at the end of January, of a pumping station of the Druzhba pipeline near Brody as a result…
Analyses | | Jan Nowinowski

MOL moves towards acquiring Russian stakes in Serbias NIS

On 19 January, the Hungarian oil and gas company MOL announced that it had signed a binding heads of agreement with the Russian petrochemical company Gazprom Neft to purchase a 56.2% stake in Serbia’s fuel company NIS. Within this package…