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💓💓Thank you my partner in crime Wojciech Przybylski

‼️🇷🇺Tomorrow, Viktor Orbán is expected to travel to Moscow, just days after he paid a surprise visit to Kyiv on Tuesday, multiple Western and CEE officials independently told me. Foreign minister Péter Szijjártó (Lavrov’s buddy) goes too. What a start to @HU24EU! VSquare

.Policy Solutions's comprehensive survey of foreign policy attitudes reveals how Hungarian public opinion sees the world in 2024. Full report here: policysolutions.hu/userfiles/Poli… Some highlights👇

✍️📖 In their book chapter, Clara Volintiru and our Research Affiliate Edit Zgut-Przybylska look at democracy and Europeanization in Romania. Details: 👉 cutt.ly/xegrMUhP

🔙🗣️🗞️ Our Research Affiliates Edit Zgut-Przybylska and Peter Kreko commented on Hungarian PM Orban's earlier meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in The New York Times. Read what they said: 👉 cutt.ly/ZejDZVvn

EXCLUSIVE: Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺 challenges Orbán Viktor anti-Western narratives. Read the full interview ⤵️ visegradinsight.eu/radoslaw-sikor… FYI Eszter Zalan Szabolcs Panyi Benjamin Novak Peter Kreko Edit Zgut-Przybylska Daniel Hegedus Philipp Fritz Steven Erlanger Marcin Zaborowski Prof. Katarzyna PISARSKA Michał Baranowski

I took a break in Babyville to write this for Visegrad Insight. Donald Tusk's dismantling of PiS’s #informal #patronal system may offer lessons for the 🇭🇺opposition #TISZA. Instead of demonising press/CSOs, it should push a culture of mutual tolerance👉twtr.to/2-4Bs

🇺🇦 "At least 120 Ukrainian citizens, mainly from the Transcarpathian region, are now homeless, with thousands more facing eviction as Hungary enforces a decree that restricts state-subsidized accommodation to those directly affected by the war in Ukraine." rferl.org/a/hungary-ukra…

Intelligence Book of the Day: Understanding Russian Strategic Behavior: Imperial Strategic Culture and Putin’s Operational Code buff.ly/3Vt4AKe

🚀 Happy to share this regional analysis on #disinformation/CSOs. It was a pleasure to work with Daniel Milo TechSoup and great authors from Political Capital on this important topic. 👉 Check out the report here: twtr.to/kLp7N

💥NEW STORY: Leaked internal files from a Kremlin-controlled propaganda center reveal how a well-coordinated Russian campaign supported far-right parties in the EP elections and planted disinformation on social media to undermine Ukraine. VSquare vsquare.org/leaked-files-p…

New: Germany lobbying fellow EU members to vote against tariffs on Chinese EVs Comes as Chinese commerce minister Wang Wentao heads to Berlin tomorrow for talks with Robert Habeck scmp.com/news/china/dip…

🔥Me in Bloomberg news: economic downturn couldn't have come at a worse moment for Orban. Sharp slowdown in EV sales/brewing trade war with 🇨🇳 makes 🇭🇺 vulnerable. It harms the elite coherence of Orban's patronal-informal regime👇twtr.to/_4yKs w/ the great #DoraGyorffi

✍️📄 Our Research Affiliate Edit Zgut-Przybylska is the lead author of a recent report on disinformation and civil society in the Visegrad region. Learn more: 👉 cutt.ly/SeY9X5HD

🇵🇱visegradinsight.eu/polish-far-rig…⚖️ The Polish far-right opposition is facing criminal charges and financial ruin. After 8 years in power, did they bite off more than they could chew? Daniel Freund Szabolcs Panyi Edit Zgut-Przybylska Anna Wójcik Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 Jaras Gwizdak Krzysztof Izdebski

"The Orbán government has decided to put an end to Polish-Hungarian friendship once and for all," says Edit Zgut-Przybylska, commenting on the feud between the "two brothers", which has even reached a personal level.

My op-ed in EUobserver with John Morijn Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 & Kim Lane Scheppele euobserver.com/eu-political/a…

🔎3 years ago, it was a major scandal when I uncovered secret Hungarian government plans to build Fudan University's campus in Budapest with a Chinese loan under typical Belt and Road terms. Those plans were scrapped – here’s what we’ll have instead. More: vsquare.org/goulash-unexpe…

Orbán took centre stage at summits in Budapest last week. Can European leaders unify against him? Or are they stuck in the black sheep’s pen? Timothy Garton Ash Edit Zgut-Przybylska Lili Bayer Garvan Walshe Szabolcs Panyi Daniel Freund visegradinsight.eu/orbans-ambitio…