Severe frosts this week have left Hungary’s fruit crop in a critical condition, with counties stretching across the south of the country among the most affected. Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg County, an important fruit-growing region in the east, saw between 10 per cent and 100 per cent of the blossoms in its orchards destroyed by spring frost that… Continue »

Poland has come closer to officially admitting the existence of an American CIA torture site after Prime Minister Donald Tusk confirmed last week that former head of intelligence services Zbigniew Siemiatkowski faces charges for complicity in liberty deprivation and torture. The European Parliament has been investigating throughout Europe in the last few years but this… Continue »

The stand-off between Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government and the European Union continued this week, while an Economy Ministry official said Hungary remains committed to securing an International Monetary Fund-EU credit line and has no Plan B. Let me be clear… “The preconditions are actually rather clear,” European Commission spokesman Olivier Bailly told reporters in… Continue »