Articles for category: Business, Europe

Petr Dubinsky

How Hungary Has Become Putin’s Trojan Horse to Weaken Europe

The following article was originally published by Anna Nemtsov in the Daily Beast:   Russian President Vladimir Putin has some key allies in the European Union. In some countries, they are outliers, even fringe elements. In some, like France and the Netherlands, they made impressive bids for power before, finally, they failed. But in Hungary, ...

William Malcolm

Czech Finance Minister Attends ECOFIN Council Meeting

The Czech finance minister, Ivan Pilny, on Tuesday attended a meeting of the Eurozone focusing on the fiscal rules governing the Eurozone and on the future of the banking union.  The presence of the Czech finance minister was in response to a request from the Czech government for the Czech Republic to be granted observer ...

milos zeman

Czech President Milos Zeman to EU: Russian Sanctions Foolish

The EU’s latest stance on anti-Russian sanctions ‘looks hypocritical’ and demonstrates Brussels’ ambivalence, Czech President Milos Zeman said on Thursday night in a TV Barrandov broadcast.   “I assert that the European Union’s decision to announce anti-Russian sanctions was a foolish thing to do. Now other [European politicians] say the same,” he said. “The United ...