Former US President Donald Trump's method to promote peace should be applied in connection with the Ukraine war, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in New York on Friday. The foreign ministry cited Szijjarto as saying on his way to the…
European money is needed if Hungary is to emerge from its cost-of-living crisis, Gergely Karacsony, the mayor of Budapest, said on Friday. But the government must comply with the rule of law and enforce strict anti-corruption measures to…
The government will fortify the fence along Hungary's border with Serbia, an interior ministry official said in the border town of Roszke on Friday. Hungary is increasing the height of its border fence so that Europe does not have to bring…
Hungary is able to secure gas supplies for itself, "unlike the westerners", Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in an interview to public radio on Friday. "We're more adept at getting gas on our own than if we were to wait for others," the…
Viktor Orban has said he expects calls in the European Union for a ceasefire and peace talks in connection with the Russia-Ukraine war to grow. In an interview to public radio on Friday, the prime minister said tensions at last week's EU…
It was hard for Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala to co-sign the bestowment of state decorations to some people whom President Milos Zeman decided to award at Prague Castle, the presidential seat, tonight, on the occasion of the national…
The Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) in South Korea, the Slovak university has reported on its website. The aim of the memorandum is to…
The police will seek to ensure that the joint local and regional elections on Saturday (October 29) go smoothly, Police Corps Presidium spokesperson Denisa Bardyova has told TASR, adding that they've adopted security measures aimed at…
The First Czechoslovak Republic was a state guaranteeing a broad range of rights, freedom for all as well as women's suffrage, Prime Minister Eduard Heger noted on Friday on the 104th anniversary of the creation of the republic on T. G.…
Austria on Friday prolonged checks on its border with Slovakia by 15 days, and it will later consider extending them by another 30 days, according to information released by the Austrian Interior Ministry. Originally, the checks on the…
The Czech and Ukrainian flag with a fading portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin in between are flying at the seat of the Interior Ministry in Prague as the initiative of Interior Minister Vit Rakusan and the Decommunization civic…
Czech President Milos Zeman named nine new generals at Prague Castle, the presidential seat, on the occasion of the national holiday, marking Czechoslovakia's birth in 1918, today. Zeman previously rejected the government proposal for…
Poland has abolished simplified procedures for Russian citizens seeking access to its labour market amid the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine and a risk of increasing migration from Russia, family and social policy minister has announced.…
Poland is interested in joining Nato's Nuclear Sharing programme, the Polish president's foreign policy advisor said on Friday. Jakub Kumoch said this was the result of Moscow annulling a 1997 Nato-Russia agreement barring the deployment…
Polish President Andrzej Duda's chief foreign policy advisor has defended the decision by the Vatican's Warsaw representative to invite the Russian ambassador to a party, despite the diplomat's presence causing a "problem" for other guests…
The Polish government will make sure that public finances are stable in 2023 and 2024 as the global crisis is spreading, Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has pledged. Morawiecki made the comment during a visit on Friday to a…
The Slovak National Museum (SNM) - Jewish Culture Museum in cooperation with Holocaust Education in Ireland have been carrying out a project titled Crocus each year, aiming to commemorate about 1.5 million child victims who perished in the…
The police have recorded a dramatic increase in drink-driving in Slovakia, as the police detected alcohol on the breath of 8,068 drivers in the first nine months of 2022, the highest figure in the same period since 2015, Interior Minister…
Jozef Nagy will become a new chancellor of Kosice's University of Veterinarian Medicine and Pharmacy (UVLF), set to replace incumbent chancellor Jana Mojzisova, TASR learnt from university spokesperson Zuzana Bobrikova on Thursday. Nagy's…
Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger (OLANO) met Icelandic President Gudni Thorlacius Johannesson at the Government Office on Thursday, TASR learnt from the Government Office's press and information department. The premier and the Icelandic…
The belief that talks between Russia and Ukraine can end the war between the two countries is a "naive illusion", Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Thursday, adding that US-Russia talks were needed to end the conflict. In order for…
Up to 76 percent of Poles believe Russia's war in Ukraine poses a threat to Poland's security, a new survey has found. Of those, 32 percent said that the war is definitely a threat and 42 percent said it is likely a threat, according to a…
The Polish-Belarusian frontier will be the most secure external border of the European Union's passport-free Schengen zone, a deputy interior minister has said, owing to a new fence that now separates the two countries. The construction of…
Two cases of a new Omicron sub-variant of the coronavirus that has appeared in western Europe have been identified in Poland, Waldemar Kraska, the deputy health minister, said on Thursday. In an interview with PAP, Kraska said that "from…
Large EU countries like Germany and France are unwilling to classify Russia as a "terrorist regime", a Polish deputy foreign minister has said. On Wednesday the Senate, Poland's upper house of parliament, unanimously adopted a resolution…
Four memorials to the Soviet Red Army are being taken down on Thursday, the head of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), the body charged with investigating wartime and communist-era crimes, said. "These memorials should have been…
The European Commission on Thursday announced the launch of an in-depth investigation to assess whether a 43.8 million euro government grant for a new automotive components plant in an underdeveloped region in northern Hungary complied…
Zoltan Maruzsa, the state secretary in charge of public education has invited representatives of the strike committee of teachers' unions for November 7, a senior official of the union PDSZ said on Thursday. Erzsebet Nagy spoke at a press…
The world will give up even the hope for peace if communication between the west and Russia becomes impossible, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said at a roundtable organised by the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) in Washington,…
The long-term solution to the ongoing energy crisis is for Europe to procure as much energy from as many directions as possible, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday. Orban signed a strategic partnership agreement with Georgian…