It’s sad to see that Poland & Hungary apparently are overplaying their power & maybe even opening the Pandora’s box to the offer of putting their country on the road to talk about their [own Brexits’]
Pawel Zerka comments on how Poland and Hungary reacted to the rule of law conditionality within the EU budget agreements
Corruption allegations and repeated disputes with the EU over rule of law issues have shaken trust in the EU, at a decisive time
Susi Dennison and Pawel Zerka’s report on the Frugal states in the EU is quoted by Le Monde
The Danish newspaper refers to the latest ECFR poll and its results on the “frugal five”
It shows that […] the ‘my nation first’ discourse , the trampling of established rules, may help to win the election once, but it can also backfire
Pawel Zerka comments on how Trump’s defeat weakens also other populist leaders
Trump has shown that there are no taboos and that makes populists in Europe or elsewhere in the world more eligible
Pawel Zerka explains why Trump’s defeat hits populism but does not bring it down
Populist leaders such as Bolsonaro and Orban have their own internal problems to contend with, and a Trump retreat would “not necessarily mean a change in their standing
Pawel Zerka speaks about how Trump loosing the US election might dent the ambitions of authoritarian leaders
The position of Poland and Hungary looks to me like a bluff. I don’t think they would go so far as to block the budget. Poland at least will think twice about it, simply because they would risk losing a lot of money
Pawel Zerka is quoted by Liberation regarding Polish and Hungarian opposition to the European recovery plan
The position of Poland and Hungary looks to me like a bluff. I don’t think they would go so far as to block the budget. Poland at least will think twice about it, simply because they would risk losing a lot of money
Pawel Zerka is quoted in Toute l'Europe press review regarding Hungary and Poland stance on the European budget
Poland was once the leading voice of the EU’s east. But smaller countries such as Lithuania have overtaken it in responding to the situation in Belarus
Oko Press republished Pawel Zerka's latest commentary on Poland losing its influence amongst EU’s eastern neighbours
The involvement of other European leaders can be based on the model of the trio formed by the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Radoslaw Sikorski, with Laurent Fabius and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who travelled to Kiev in 2014 for the crisis in the Maidan
Pawel Zerka on the conflict in Belarus after the elections