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PRAGUE (AP) – Populist billionaire Andrej Babis leads a field of eight candidates hoping to succeed Milos Zeman in the largely ceremonial but prestigious post of the Czech president.

Hungary has exempted young mothers from paying income tax as it continues to expand the package of pro-family formation policies it has introduced as an alternative to mass migration.

Poland has demolished four so-called ‘Monuments of Gratitude’ to the armies of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) as part of an ongoing decommunisation programme.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Poland´s top leaders celebrated the opening Saturday of a new – albeit unfinished – canal that they say will mean ships no longer must secure Russia´s permission to sail from the Baltic Sea to the ports of the Vistula Lagoon.

In what is the latest instance of EU bigwigs attacking the conservative-led state, the European Parliament has now declared that Hungary is “no longer a democracy”.

The head of Poland’s governing Law and Justice (PiS) party has claimed that Germany owes his country cash reparations for Germany’s actions in the Second World War, claiming that Poland suffered as much as 1.3 trillion euros of damage.

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán issued an astonishing denunciation of the United States’ governing Democrats at a speech in Texas, telling American conservatives they “hate you and slander you and the America you stand for.”

England’s national football team was roundly booed in Hungary for taking the knee prior to what proved to be a 1-0 loss to the Central European country.

Petrol stations in Hungary were sites of chaos this week as foreign vehicle owners rushed to buy fuel before the country raises prices for foreigners, with some even being turned away. Hungarian petrol prices are much cheaper than in many

Hungary’s Justice Minister Judit Varga drew a clear distinction between Ukrainian refugees who wait respectfully for admission and aggressive illegal migrants who breach borders and attack the authorities in an interview with Breitbart London.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia pressed its offensive in eastern Ukraine on Sunday as Poland’s president travelled to Kyiv to support the country’s European Union aspirations, becoming the first foreign leader to address the Ukrainian parliament since the start of the war.

In his opening address at CPAC Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán presented the global right with what he called the ‘antidote to progressive dominance’.

The European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy says there is no guarantee that the 27-nation bloc will be able to finalise a new set of sanctions against Russia, with a small group of countries led by Hungary opposing a full oil embargo.

The French ambassador to Poland was summoned on Friday by the Polish foreign minister after President Emmanuel Macron branded Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki a “far-right antisemite”.

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) – Slovakia’s Defence Minister Jaroslav Nad says the United States will deploy a Patriot air defence system in his country next week.

Poland’s national conservative prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecky, has publicly upbraided the French president, Emmanuel Macron, over his negotiations with Vladimir Putin, insisting they have achieved nothing.

Hungary’s national conservative prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has won a fourth consecutive term of office, matching Germany’s Angela Merkel — despite the establishment left, far left, and even the far right teaming up to oust him at the ballot box.

Ukrainian refugees in Poland are reportedly hesitant to get on buses to Sweden, fearing their children may be taken from them by Swedish social services and expressing concerns over shootings.

The Polish Border Guard saw a surge in illegal immigrants coming via Belarus this week, with 134 attempting to cross into the EU and NATO member on Tuesday — a daily record number for the year so far.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Poland is abolishing practically all of its COVID-19 restrictions next week, a government official said Thursday.

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) – Waves of Russian missiles pounded a military training base close to Ukraine’s western border with NATO member Poland, killing 35 people. The strike followed Russian threats to target foreign weapon shipments that are helping Ukrainian fighters defend their country against Russia’s grinding invasion.

The number of Ukrainian refugees in Poland, mostly women and children, is on course to top the number of migrants taken by Germany during the 2015 migrant crisis.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed he is looking “very actively” at a scheme for Poland to donate Soviet-designed jets to Ukraine and have them replaced with American jets — hours after the Polish government said the plan was “fake news”. 

Hungary, noted for its strong border policies, has opened its arms to Ukrainian refugees despite having a policy of “blocking cooperation with Ukraine at every European Union and NATO forum” over the country’s treatment of its Hungarian minority until Russia invaded, an official told Breitbart News this week.

EU and NATO member-state Czechia has warned that citizens who express support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including on social media, could face prison.

Despite having previously repelled often violent migrants on the Belarusian frontier, Poland has welcomed genuine refugees from Ukraine with open arms.

The Hungarian government has weighed in on the Ukraine crisis, vowing that it will stand by NATO but resist efforts by “the Left” to “drag” the country into war.

The Prime Minister of Poland has warned that “Europe and the free world” have to stop Russian president Vladimir Putin, urging the European Union to impose strong sanctions.

Poland’s national conservative prime minister has warned that the country’s left-liberal opposition will leave the country’s border “like Swiss cheese” if its left-liberal opposition parties return to power in the 2023 elections. 

State-owned Polish gas company PGNiG has confirmed the purchase of a large shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States, which it will transfer on to Ukraine. 

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has defended his government’s pro-childrearing and anti-mass migration policies, saying he would “rather cut off my own hand” than turn his homeland into an “immigrant country” like Germany.

Poland’s government has taken Meta to task for banning a eurosceptic party with representation in the Polish parliament from Facebook.

Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the country’s governing ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), has accused Germany of trying to create a “Fourth Reich” by pushing for a European Union federal state.

Following the passing of a law that would restrict foreign ownership of media organisations by the Polish parliament, some Poles gathered to demand President Andrzej Duda veto the bill.

The Polish government has publicly condemned a soldier tasked with guardian the border who has defected to Belarus and claimed migrants are being killed and buried in mass graves.

Former Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico was arrested on live television this week after attempting to give a statement ahead of a planned protest that would defy the country’s Wuhan virus restrictions.