Hungary

  • Dec 17, 2018
  • 2 min read

Hungary’s newly united opposition is serious challenge

Sustained protests uniting metropolitan liberals with workers angry at ‘slave labour’ are Fidesz’s biggest challenge yet

Hungary
  • Dec 10, 2018
  • 2 min read

Government could give in to Hungarians' overtime anger

Bill extending legal overtime is sign of labour market tightening

Hungary
  • Dec 4, 2018
  • 2 min read

University will teach in Budapest at government will

Government’s ‘Lex CEU’ does not close down Central European University altogether but brings it under control

Hungary
  • Nov 30, 2018
  • 7 min read

CNB will keep raising rates to quell Czech inflation

The Czech central bank will remain the region’s most hawkish as inflation persists, at the risk of currency appreciation

Czech Republic
  • Nov 19, 2018
  • 7 min read

Prospects for Central Europe in 2019

Rising tensions with the EU over rule-of-law concerns may undermine growth and business confidence

Czech Republic
  • Nov 16, 2018
  • 2 min read

Asylum for fugitive would deepen Hungary’s isolation

Budapest has helped fugitive Macedonian ex-premier but will have to consider whether to defy West and grant him asylum

Hungary
  • Nov 7, 2018
  • 2 min read

EPP likely to keep Hungary's populists until May

To reduce populist gains in May's EU parliamentary elections, the EPP will likely hold on to Hungary's Fidesz for now

EU
  • Oct 30, 2018
  • 7 min read

Pressure rises on Hungary’s central bank to hike rates

Central Europe’s central banks face credibility test as quantitative easing ends

Hungary