President-Elect Nawrocki Outlined Poland’s Three Priorities In Central And Eastern Europe By Andrew Korybko The common thread tying them together is the “Three Seas Initiative” since they’re all related to it in some way. Polish President-Elect Karol Nawrocki gave an interview to Hungarian… Read More ›
Ukraine-Hungary Tensions Escalate Over Spy Scandal And Minority Rights By Uriel Araujo Ukraine’s expulsion of Hungarian diplomats over a Transcarpathia spy scandal has escalated tensions, with Hungary halting minority rights talks. This rift reflects broader ethnopolitical strains with neighbours like Poland… Read More ›
The Latest Hungarian-Ukrainian Tensions Are Troubling By Andrew Korybko Ukraine is much more of a credible threat to Hungary than the inverse. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban revealed after a meeting with the Defence Council that Ukraine is meddling in the ongoing Hungarian… Read More ›
Can Hungary, Serbia, And Slovakia Pioneer A New Central European Integration Platform? By Andrew Korybko The possibility exists, but it should be centred on enduring economic interests that are less likely than political and security ones to shift with a change… Read More ›
Any Hungarian-Serbian Alliance Would Have Very Real Limits By Andrew Korybko Hungary won’t go to war against Croatia in support of Serbia, thus de facto defecting from NATO with all the cascading consequences that this would entail, including a possible NATO… Read More ›
Hungary And Poland Could Claim Territories Of Ukraine Amid Rising Ethnic Tensions By Uriel Araujo Ukraine’s aggressive and chauvinistic strand of nationalism alienates its neighbours and is often seen by them as a potential threat, causing ethnic and religious tensions. The… Read More ›
Ukraine’s Western Borders Are Unlikely To Change After The Conflict Ends By Andrew Korybko Two recent developments revived speculation about this long-running political fantasy coming true. Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) chief Sergey Naryshkin’s proposal to organize a conference of historians from his… Read More ›
Hungary Won’t Let Its Arms And Ammo Be Used Against Russia Unlike Serbia By Andrew Korybko Hungary’s military neutrality towards the NATO-Russian proxy war in Ukraine angers the West much more than Serbia’s economic neutrality. Viktor Orban’s chief of staff Gergely… Read More ›
Fake News Alert: Hungary Isn’t About To Tacitly Let Russian Spies Into The EU By Andrew Korybko This latest claim represents a narrative escalation in the already tense Hungarian-EU Crisis. Leader of the “European People’s Party” Manfred Weber sent a letter… Read More ›
The Polish-Hungarian Dispute Is Getting Nastier After Polish FM Lied About Hungarian FM By Andrew Korybko Szijjarto nobly took the high road by refusing to stoop to Sikorski’s level with lies and smears, which would have amounted to wrestling with a… Read More ›