Romania’s largest coalition party has voted overwhelmingly to withdraw its support for Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan, triggering an open political crisis in one of the […]
The man who just won Bulgaria’s most decisive parliamentary election in nearly three decades spent nine years carefully building an image that was many things
Bulgaria’s eighth snap election in five years has produced its most consequential result in nearly three decades, and the world is reading it very differently
Viktor Orbán’s fall after 16 years in power is not simply a Hungarian story. It is evidence that the authoritarian populist wave that reshaped European
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The election of Zoran Stevanović as Slovenia’s parliamentary speaker has handed Moscow a propaganda gift — and exposed how years of Kremlin-aligned media work had
Moscow’s response to Orbán’s electoral defeat was swift, contradictory, and revealing: deny the friendship, manage the damage, and hope the propaganda holds. Viktor Orbán’s defeat
Hungary’s Prime Minister-elect Péter Magyar held a three-hour international press conference in Budapest on April 13, outlining his government’s priorities on Ukraine, Russia, energy, and
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Péter Magyar’s centre-right Tisza party has won Hungary’s parliamentary election in a historic landslide, ending 16 years of Viktor Orbán’s rule and securing a constitutional
Bulgaria goes to the polls on April 19 in its eighth snap election since 2021 — and the outcome could reshape the country’s relationship with
An explosives find near a gas pipeline in Serbia days before Hungary’s election briefly appeared to hand Viktor Orbán a political lifeline. Within 24 hours,
US Vice President JD Vance’s visit to Budapest on April 7 to openly endorse Viktor Orbán ahead of Hungary’s April 12 parliamentary elections broke with
The request is notable because EU member states do not often publicly seek this kind of support before a national election. According to the reported
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