Trump Expects Orban To Go Along With Poland’s Vision For Central Europe By Andrew Korybko The sanctions exemption was extended as a quid pro quo for Hungary incorporating itself into Poland’s US-backed regional integration plans, which necessitates gradually ditching Russian energy…. Read More ›
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Five Reasons Why The Latest Czech Elections Were So Important
Five Reasons Why The Latest Czech Elections Were So Important By Andrew Korybko This could most significantly provide the domestic political basis for reviving the Visegrad Group. Populist-nationalist politician Andrej Babis is poised to return to the premiership after his party’s… Read More ›
Why Did Slovakia Pledge To Assist With Western Security Guarantees For Ukraine?
Why Did Slovakia Pledge To Assist With Western Security Guarantees For Ukraine? By Andrew Korybko Fico can’t realistically expect any relief from the EU pressure upon him if he threatened to obstruct the shipment of Ukrainian-destined arms through Slovakia after the… Read More ›
Hungary Warned About Brussels’ Three Regime Change Plots In Central Europe
Hungary Warned About Brussels’ Three Regime Change Plots In Central Europe By Andrew Korybko These are being advanced through a combination of information warfare and support for anti-government (Brussels-organized) “NGOs” (BONGOs). Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto warned in a Facebook post last month… Read More ›
Can Hungary, Serbia, And Slovakia Pioneer A New Central European Integration Platform?
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 ›
Five Takeaways From Hungary And Slovakia’s Russian Oil Dispute With Ukraine
Five Takeaways From Hungary And Slovakia’s Russian Oil Dispute With Ukraine By Andrew Korybko This incident shows the lengths to which Ukraine and the EU are going to keep those two in line after they united to form an anti-war bloc… Read More ›
The Eurocrats Fear That Fico’s Attempted Assassination Will Influence Next Month’s Elections
The Eurocrats Fear That Fico’s Attempted Assassination Will Influence Next Month’s Elections By Andrew Korybko Instead of speaking vaguely about alleged Russian meddling, the Eurocrats are now honing their information warfare narrative to muddle the conversation about Fico’s attempted assassination and… Read More ›
The Assassination Attempt Against Robert Fico Proves That Fake News Can Radicalize People
The Assassination Attempt Against Robert Fico Proves That Fake News Can Radicalize People By Andrew Korybko When a leader is repeatedly defamed as a “traitorous pro-Russian dictator with innocent Ukrainian blood on their hands”, psychologically at-risk members of society will inevitably… Read More ›
The Czecho-Slovak Split Over Ukraine Symbolizes The Spread Of New Cold War Divisions
The Czecho-Slovak Split Over Ukraine Symbolizes The Spread Of New Cold War Divisions By Andrew Korybko What’s so symbolic about this dynamic is that Czechs and Slovaks are fraternal people, yet they’re embracing diametrically opposite views on the New Cold War…. Read More ›
The Slovak Prime Minister Has A Pragmatic Approach Towards The Ukrainian Conflict
The Slovak Prime Minister Has A Pragmatic Approach Towards The Ukrainian Conflict By Andrew Korybko The importance of Robert Fico’s piece is that it represents yet another clearly articulated and impressively pragmatic view of the Ukrainian Conflict from a European leader… Read More ›