Visegrad Group

Pope Francis announced on Sunday a fall 2021 trip to Slovakia and Hungary, two of the four countries of the Visegrad group, an important conservative political bloc in Central Europe.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met with Estonian interior minister Mart Helme this week to forge new alliances between Hungary and the Baltic states on migration and conservative policies.

Acting Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz should apologize to Poland for his remarks, US Ambassador to Poland Georgette Mosbacher said on Wednesday, commenting on the diplomatic row between two countries.

Hungary is expected to announce on Tuesday the opening of a trade office in Jerusalem following meetings between visiting Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to senior Hungarian officials.

Patriotic politicians in Bulgaria have worked to protect the country and Europe from illegal migration, its defence minister said following the nation’s calls to close Europe’s borders.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday ended a brief, successful trip to Israel with a visit to a major Jewish shrine in east Jerusalem.

A strong majority of Europeans across 11 nations are opposed to the European Union’s (EU) immigration policies, including nearly nine in 10 Hungarians.

The Czech prime minister-designate Andrej Babiš, known as the “Czech Trump”, has said the Visegrád Group needs allies outside of Central Europe to fight illegal migration.

Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka does not want the Muslim community to grow in the Czech Republic, saying he has seen what problems large Muslim populations have caused in other European countries.

Brussels has threatened to take the Czech Republic to court after its government announced its withdrawal from the Commission scheme to force European Union (EU) countries to welcome migrants from the third world.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told the annual congress of the European People’s Party (EPP) that the European Court of Human Rights (EHCR) is a “threat to the security of EU people” and an invitation to migrants. He urged the EPP to advocate for “national pride and Christian identity” or Europe will have a Muslim majority within a generation.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Leaders from Central Europe said Tuesday they reject a European Union policy that calls for all member states to receive migrants, protesting suggestions that the level of their compliance could be linked to the availability of EU funds to them.

Calling for harsh sanctions on European Union (EU) nations refusing to welcome migrants, UN Human Rights Council Advisor Jean Ziegler said Germany’s open borders response to the crisis set a ‘great example’.

According to a new survey, young Eastern Europeans love the idea of freedom of movement but totally disagree with open doors mass migration and see Islamism as the biggest threat to the European Union (EU).

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Foreign ministers from central and southeastern Europe and the European Union’s top diplomat discussed on Tuesday challenges to the regions’ security and the need for close cooperation with and within the European Union to counter various

Contents: EU’s expected scathing report on Turkey may scuttle refugee deal; Austria says EU must prepare for collapse of Turkey migrant deal; Hungary’s Viktor Orbán defeated in attempt to ban refugee quotas

Brexit has unleashed some very powerful forces across the Old Continent. On one hand, we have the arch-federalist Eurocrats.