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Thursday, 21 January, 2021

Coronavirus treatment
Hungary approves Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine
Country is first EU state to break ranks and give unilateral emergency approval for Covid jab
Tuesday, 19 January, 2021

Biden-Harris: what you need to know
Biden in the White House: which world leaders stand to lose out?
Russia’s Putin, India’s Modi and the UK’s Johnson, will find relations with the US more challenging
Tuesday, 19 January, 2021

Hungary
Chinese university to open Budapest campus as Orban tilts to Beijing
Move comes amid concerns about future of academic freedom in Hungary
Thursday, 14 January, 2021

FT SeriesErdogan’s great game
Erdogan’s great game: Turkish intrigue in the Balkans
String of extractions of Turkish citizens from countries beholden to Ankara is raising alarm
Friday, 8 January, 2021

FT Magazine
Inside Germany’s abattoirs: the human cost of cheap meat
Eastern European migrants have long staffed slaughterhouses with poor pay and gruelling hours. A new law wants to change that
Monday, 4 January, 2021

The Big Read
Old tensions still alive in Bosnia 25 years after Dayton
The 1995 peace deal was supposed to be a catalyst to repair relations but instead it has cemented ethnic divides, say critics
Thursday, 31 December, 2020

Coronavirus economic impact
Vienna Philharmonic plays on despite pandemic restrictions
New Year’s concert and other Austrian performing arts receive generous state support
Tuesday, 29 December, 2020

Natural disasters
Croatian earthquake claims at least 7 lives
Tremors felt as far away as Hungary and Austria as Balkan nation seeks EU aid
Thursday, 17 December, 2020

Hungary
ECJ ruling deals blow to Hungary’s asylum process
EU’s top court says aspects of Budapest’s policy breached EU law while separate opinion raps Poland’s judicial clampdown
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Tuesday, 15 December, 2020

Hungary
Hungary limits rights of gay couples and changes electoral rules
Critics say Orban and his far-right Fidesz party have run roughshod over European values
Tuesday, 15 December, 2020

Montenegro
Montenegro’s new PM promises national ‘rebirth’
Zdravko Krivokapic says he will preside over a government of ‘experts’
Monday, 14 December, 2020

News in-depthRomania
Far-right party changes political landscape in Romania
Nationalist alliance formed a year ago set to be fourth-largest group in parliament after election last week
Friday, 11 December, 2020

Lunch with the FT
Erno Rubik: ‘The Cube has his own voice’
The Rubik’s Cube creator on getting rich in cold war-era Hungary and the nature of invention
Monday, 7 December, 2020

Romania
Romanian premier resigns after his party comes second in election
Ludovic Orban had been hoping to turn minority government into a convincing mandate
Friday, 4 December, 2020

The Big Read
EU identity crisis: Poland, Hungary and the fight over Brussels’ values
The dispute over the rule of law in some countries is damaging the union’s moral legitimacy
Tuesday, 1 December, 2020

Hungary
Orban loyalist caught in Brussels lockdown-busting ‘sex party’
Fidesz MEP resigns from European parliament after attending the all-male gathering
Sunday, 29 November, 2020

Eastern Europe
Bulgaria joins Europe’s awkward squad
Concern is growing in Brussels about Sofia’s tolerance of cronyism and corruption
Thursday, 26 November, 2020

EU eastern tensions
Hungary and Poland harden stance in EU budget stand-off
Viktor Orban and Mateusz Morawiecki restate opposition to plan that ties bloc funds to rule of law
Tuesday, 24 November, 2020

Romania
Romania PM berates Poland and Hungary over EU budget veto
Ludovic Orban says their stance on rule of law ‘is against the whole of Europe’
Friday, 20 November, 2020

EU common budget
EU scrambles to resolve rule of law stand-off as economy suffers
Hungary and Poland insist Brussels will have to offer concessions to break deadlock
Thursday, 19 November, 2020

Hungary
Brussels warns Hungary on Russian Covid jab
Tensions grow over whether Budapest plans to use Sputnik V vaccine even though it does not have EU regulatory approval
Wednesday, 18 November, 2020

Brussels Briefing
North Macedonia’s EU odyssey hits rough seas again Premium
Bulgaria opposes start of accession talks in latest blow to European bloc’s battle for regional influence
Wednesday, 18 November, 2020

News in-depthEU eastern tensions
Hungary and Poland stand firm against EU rule of law conditions
Both feel unfairly targeted, while febrile domestic politics constrain Warsaw’s room for manoeuvre
Tuesday, 17 November, 2020

EU enlargement
Bulgaria moves to bar North Macedonia from joining EU
Bloc’s ministers fail to break deadlock in stumbling enlargement agenda
Tuesday, 17 November, 2020

EU common budget
EU states push for Hungary and Poland to drop budget deal veto
Leaders set to discuss resistance from Budapest and Warsaw on rule of law in video call on Thursday