Members of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz, the Hungarian Civic Alliance party, have decided not to attend a special session of parliament on the evening of 31 May dedicated to the Russian cyberattack on the Hungarian Foreign Ministry in…
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Kyiv is likely to receive the first tranche of frozen Russian assets revenue from the Europe…
David Stulík is one of the Czech diplomats who understands Ukraine best. Having worked there for many years, he speaks Ukrainian fluently and is well-known for his candid, non-diplomatic statements. Currently, he holds an official role in the Czech go…
Sweden is considering unilaterally blocking imports of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) if Hungary prevents or manages to ease the EU’s proposed sanctions against Russia.
Source: Bloomberg with reference to Ebba Busch, Minister for Energy, Business …
The German government has announced that Ukraine has fulfilled the requirements for reforms necessary to start negotiations on joining the European Union.
Source: Anna Lührmann, Germany’s Minister of State for Europe and Climate, in an interview with D…
Hungary is blocking the approval of a draft negotiation framework on Ukraine’s accession to the European Union over the issue of minority rights, as a meeting of EU ambassadors is ongoing on 29 May.
Source: Rikard Jozwiak, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liber…
The self-proclaimed Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko has signed a law to suspend Belarus’ participation in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), signed in Paris in 1990.
Source: Interfax
Details: The document was published o…
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has outlined the three topics raised at an informal meeting of some of Kyiv’s allies – the leaders of Czechia, Poland, Latvia, Denmark and the Netherlands and a representative of the US – in Prague on 28 May.
Sour…
Hungary has blocked the European Union’s approval of the allocation of proceeds from frozen Russian assets to purchase weapons for Ukraine.
Source: Financial Times, citing five people who attended a meeting of EU ambassadors on Wednesday, as reported b…
On 23 May at 12:00, all Orthodox Church bells were ringing across Serbia to prevent the adoption of an “anti-Serb” UN resolution later that day.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić urgently flew to the UN meeting, having previously publicly prayed for …