The Czech Freedom and Direct Democracy (ID) party will convene a committee within the next two weeks to analyse its disappointing performance in the recent European elections, party leader Tomio Okamura announced on Tuesday.
Sirens blared across Poland during the funeral of a soldier who died last week after being stabbed by a migrant at the border with Belarus - serving as another example of hybrid activities taking place all across NATO, according to Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
As the summer recess of the Slovak parliament approaches, the ruling coalition announced on Tuesday that it will postpone until September the controversial laws on foreign agents and environmental impact assessment, as well as the dispute over the new speaker of parliament, which the coalition parties are contesting.
Between an oil tycoon embroiled in a visa-selling scandal, an anti-Semitic firefighter and former ministers convicted of abuse of power, the conservative PiS (ECR) party, which came a close second to Prime Minister Donald Tusk's Civic Coalition, is set to bring some controversial faces to the new EU Parliament.
There will be no alliance with radical forces in the European Parliament, said Czech Prime Minister and leader of the Civic Democrats (ODS/ECR) Petr Fiala, adding that his conservative EU group should seek cooperation with the centre-right European People's Party (EPP), which maintained its dominance in the European Parliament.
Liberal opposition party Progressive Slovakia (PS/Renew) emerged victorious in the European elections in Slovakia with 27.8% of the vote and six seats, beating Robert Fico’s Smer-SD (NI), initially seen as the frontrunner, which secured 24.8% of the vote and five seats.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party came out on top in the European elections in Hungary on Sunday, the party's weakest ever EU election result, as the opposition made gains.
The controversial far-right coalition of Přísaha and Motoristé made significant gains in Czechia’s European elections, securing two seats and emerging as the country’s third party.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s Civic Coalition (KO, EPP) scored 37.4% in the European elections in Poland on Sunday the vote, with Law & Justice (PiS, ECR) trailing close behind with 35.7%, meaning both are expected to send 20 MEPs to Brussels.
Failing to communicate the Green Deal properly was the current European Commission’s “biggest mistake”, Joanna Kamińska, an EU elections candidate for the Polish Greens, told Euractiv.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who survived an assassination attempt, posted a video on Facebook in which he said he did not believe the attack on him had been carried out by a "lone madman", blaming the media and the opposition.
Disinformation is in full swing in Slovakia, with pro-Russian forces accusing opposition leader Michal Šimečka of the Progressive Slovakia party (PS) of planning an uprising similar to the 2014 Maidan in Ukraine, alongside narratives that foreign entities plotted the assassination of Prime Minister Robert Fico and that the EU wants to kill cows and force citizens to eat worms instead.
Following Peter Pellegrini's victory in the presidential elections, his resignation from the post of parliamentary speaker has put his former party, Hlas, in a difficult position, as both its coalition partners prefer to give the post to the SNS, despite the coalition agreement.
Czech populist party ANO (Renew) withdrew an election ad showing a boat full of migrants with a sign reading "Vote before it is too late", saying it could frighten some citizens.
Poland’s co-governing Left Party (S&D) would find it hard to support a second term for European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen if she decides to cooperate with conservatives in the hard-right ECR group, Left MEP Robert Biedroń told Euractiv Poland, adding that the Prime Minister Donald Tusk should also rule out such cooperation.
The populist movement of former prime minister Andrej Babiš, ANO (Renew), is set to win the EU elections in Czechia with 23.1% of the vote, while the conservative coalition of Prime Minister Petr Fiala, Spolu (EPP+ECR), is in second place with 21.5%, new polls show.
Poland’s far-right Confederation Party, likely to have MEPs for the first time after the upcoming European elections, will either try to join the far-right Identity or Democracy group or form a new faction with AfD and Fidesz, experts say.
An amended Polish resolution on the use of conscience clauses on abortion has come into force, requiring hospitals to have a doctor on site able to perform an abortion in certain circumstances - a significant change in a country with one of the strictest abortion laws in Europe.
An assassination attempt against Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico on 15 May has had a significant impact on the electorate, recent polls suggest, as his Smer party seems to have gained significant ground ahead of the EU elections.
The Czech National Committee of the International Press Institute (CZ IPI) has expressed concerns about possible violations of the principles of free journalism at Slovakia's television Markíza, which is owned by the Czech investment group PPF, as its editors threaten to go on strike.
The European Commission officially withdrew the Article 7 procedure against Poland after concluding that the country no longer violates the rule of law, the EU’s executive branch announced on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced plans to reinforce the EU's eastern flank after an asylum seeker attacked a Polish border guard with a knife while trying to cross the border with Belarus.
Czech Defence Minister Jana Černochová (ODS, ECR) called on its European allies to contribute financially to the so-called Czech ammunition initiative, as only four countries have so far met their financial commitments.
Michal Kovačič, one of Slovakia’s leading and most respected political moderators, stated that journalists at the largest Slovak TV station, Markíza, face pressure from both politicians and their own management, leading to the immediate suspension of his TV show.
