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DEMOCRACY DIGEST: HUNGARY LOCKS HORNS WITH US OVER BOSNIA, NATURALISATION LAW

Elsewhere, Czechs finally have law to protect whistleblowers; Poland adopts amended version of a panel to investigate ‘Russian influence’; and Slovaks don’t want the next government to help Ukraine militarily.US-Hungarian relations were in the news this week. After Washington imposed sanctions on four top Bosnian Serb officials for undermining a …

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HUNGARY’S EU PRESIDENCY: WHAT CAN CONCEIVABLY BE ACHIEVED?

Hungary’s government is hopeful its presidency of the Council of the EU in the second half of 2024 will be an opportunity to end its isolation within the EU, and has for the first time established a Ministry of EU Affairs to help manage the process. The countdown has begun. …

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POLES ON BELARUS BORDER URGE BETTER COOPERATION NOT MORE FEARMONGERING FROM GOVERNMENT

Even as the risk of provocation rises, locals on Poland’s border with Belarus are trying to remain calm. What worries them more than the proximity of Wagner mercenaries is an overreaction by a state that’s had its vulnerability to hybrid threats exposed. Two years into the migration crisis and tensions …

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