Prime Minister Viktor Orban will ask the EU to finance half the cost of Hungary's border defense measures to keep out migrants, an aide said on Thursday, days before a court ruling on Hungary's rejection of the bloc's migrant quotas.
French President Emmanuel Macron gestures while delivering a speech during a joint news conference with his Romanian counterpart, Klaus Iohannis, in Bucharest, August 24.
At least three marble plates signifying Jewish headstones were smashed Sunday in Balf, a town located 120 miles west of Budapest, the Jewish weekly Szombat reported Monday. The monument, which comprises dozens of marble tablets in the shape of headstones, was unveiled in 2008.
The European Commission will "brutally" review whether EU funding for anti-discrimination programmes is wasted, as part of its renewed efforts to make sure a new strategy for protecting Roma populations after 2020 actually works.
The European Commission is to come to a decision in the autumn as to
whether to take the infringement proceedings launched against the Czech
Republic, Slovakia and Hungary over discrimination of Romany children in
Romania, as a member state of the European Union, wants more solidarity and unity, Romanian Deputy Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said on Tuesday at the ceremonies in Slovakia dedicated to the Slovak National Uprising.
Slovakia commemorates the 73rd anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising during WWII. The main ceremony was held on Tuesday in Banska Bystrica in central Slovakia where uprising started on Aug. 29, 1944.
French President Emmanuel Macron got lukewarm support from Romania on Thursday for his push to tighten EU rules over the employment abroad of workers from low-pay countries, but enough for him to express confidence of a deal by year-end.
The Slovakian film "The Teacher," based on an incident in the childhood of screenwriter Petr Jarchovsky, stars Zuzana Maurery as a ruthless teacher at a middle school in Bratislava.
Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka has described ongoing strategic
dialogue between the Czech Republic and Germany as a key tool for good
relations in central Europe, only then mentioning cooperation between
