The UK government’s second Economic Crime Plan is welcome, but do enforcement agencies have the arsenal to deliver? When the UK government’s first ever whole-of-government plan for tackling the myriad harms of economic crime to the UK wrapped up in July 2022, we gave its impact a mixed scorecard. Although …

The resignation of Henryk Kowalczyk was seen as a political cost PiS had to pay to appease farmers angry at the flood of Ukrainian grain into the country and to enable the first state visit of Ukraine’s president to pass off smoothly. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky paid his first state …

In other news, plans are in the works for Hungarian PM to visit Ukraine; Slovakia’s National Security Authority claims acting interior minister illegally accessed classified EU and NATO documents; and Poland gets 2 new ministers. Rental housing prices in the Czech Republic have risen dramatically over recent years, driven higher …