Tag: v4
World 03.04.20 | 20:09

V4: Hungary prepares a major stimulus package, aims to create more jobs than the epidemic destroys

Hungary is introducing a coronavirus fund that will help redice the economic damage the country will suffer from the epidemic. Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that he is preparing the greatest stimulus program Hungary has ever seen and it will be geared toward saving and creating jobs. We must create...
World 19.02.20 | 11:21

V4: Orban sends memorandum to the European People’s Party

Hungarian PM and ruling Fidesz President Viktor Orban has sent a memorandum to the leaders of the European People’s Party (EPP) with a view to altering the EPP’s strategic guideline. “If we wish to renew the EPP, the internal debates regarding the EPP’s future mission are inevitable”,...
Balkans 14.02.20 | 11:45

V4: Viktor Orban warns that migration pressure may increase on Hungary’s southern border

Migratory pressure on Hungary’s southern border is expected to increase as the weather improves and more and more migrants set out, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Thursday at the crossing point of Roszke on the Hungary-Serbia border, where he inspected the border barrier with Slovakia’s...
Economy 12.02.20 | 17:14

German carmaker suffers big loss due to electric transition

Although Mercedes-Benz has produced record sales, the German carmaker’s profit fell by 11 million euros to 2.7 billion euros in the last quarter of 2019. The profits slumped as a result of heavy investments in electric technology and the legal costs of the so-called “dieselgate” scandal,...
World 10.02.20 | 18:26

V4: Soros network springs into action in Italy

Italy has witnessed the emergence of a new civic movement recently. The group called “Sardines” plans to step up against right-wing political forces with a particular focus on former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s anti-immigration Lega party. The organisation comprising a number...
Balkans 07.02.20 | 10:23

V4: Migrant caravan heading through Serbia to Hungary

Several hundred migrants have gathered on the Serbian side of the Hungary-Serbia border in a bid to enter Hungary, a Hungarian public television correspondent reports from the border on Thursday afternoon. Migrants have been organising their plans for weeks in closed groups on social media, a news correspondent...
World 01.02.20 | 13:40

Greta Thunberg to trademark her name and Fridays for Future

Climate activist Greta Thunberg’s family has applied to trademark her name and the Fridays For Future climate movement she started from scratch in 2018. While their official explanation is to make the financials of the movement more transparent, the move could also boost the family’s not insignificant...
Economy 31.01.20 | 10:59

Unemployment in the EU drops to its lowest-ever point, V4 countries in the lead

Figures released by Eurostat on Thursday reveal that the unemployment rate in the European Union fell to its lowest level ever in December 2019 and to an 11-year low in the euro area. The Czech Republic boasts the lowest unemployment rate in the whole of the European Union, while jobless figures in Poland...
Economy 22.01.20 | 10:04

V4: Europe can’t achieve climate neutrality without nuclear energy

Without nuclear energy Europe cannot achieve climate neutrality by 2050, so the EU must end its negative discrimination of nuclear energy, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said at the Central & Eastern Europe Nuclear Industry Congress in Prague on Tuesday. He said the construction of two...
Balkans 21.01.20 | 22:16

V4: Record numbers of migrants arrive from Turkey

Frontex has revealed that the number of migrants arriving to the EU from Turkey in 2019 increased by 46 percent compared with the previous year , the V4 news agency reported. According to a report published by Frontex, the EU’s Coast and Border Agency, 2019 saw a drastic increase in the number...
World 20.01.20 | 12:56

V4: Eight die in Czech nursing home fire

Eight people have been killed in a fire in a home for people with disabilities in the Czech Republic close to the German border on Sunday morning, the V4 news agency reported. Due to the tragedy, Prime Minister Andrej Babis also travelled to the scene. Two German units also participated in the rescue. According...
World 17.01.20 | 17:16

V4: The EPP situation will have to be resolved, Orban says

Many European People’s Party (EPP) members betrayed Hungary during the EP vote on Thursday. “We were an inch away from quitting” the EPP, Viktor Orban said in his regular Friday radio interview. He emphasized that if the EPP does not stick up for Hungary, “we have to start a new...
World 07.01.20 | 20:00

V4: Slovakia temporarily relocates its soldiers stationed in Iraq

Slovak soldiers taking part in a NATO mission in Iraq have been temporarily relocated to another country, the press department of the Government Office has informed Slovakia’s state news agency (TASR). With regard to the current situation in Iraq which has led to the suspension of the NATO mission,...
Balkans 27.12.19 | 12:11

V4: Hungarian police intercept 139 illegal migrants on the Serbian border on Boxing Day

Hungarian police officers apprehended 101 foreign nationals along the Bacs-Kiskun county section of the Serbia-Hungary border on 26 December. The migrants, who claimed to be Palestinian, Syrian, Iraqi and Algerian citizens, entered Hungary illegally. Two migrants were prevented from crossing the Hungarian...
World 23.12.19 | 11:48

V4NA report: Western European Jews face uncertain future

Although politicians are keen on proclaiming the importance of the fight against anti-Semitism, they often focus on the extreme right, and completely ignore the Muslim, left-wing and stubbornly anti-Israeli voices. It shows that anti-Semitism has not disappeared from Europe after the Nazi era, but has...
World 18.12.19 | 14:25

Terror alert overshadows Christmas markets’ festive atmosphere

With Christmas fast approaching, European capitals are preparing for the holidays, albeit many of them in a rather unusual way. The German city of Essen, for example, tried to disguise its public security measures by placing festive pine tree-shaped concrete blocks around its main Christmas market. The...
World 07.12.19 | 14:59

V4 summary: Migrant groups on the move in the UK, Greece, Spain

More than a hundred migrants attempted to reach the EU by boat last week, with almost a record high of seventy-nine trying to cross the English Channel to reach the United Kingdom in a single day. A boat carrying an African group of migrants on their way to the Canary Islands capsized near the Mauritania...
Economy 27.11.19 | 15:35

V4: German automaker plans massive layoffs

Audi is to cut 9.500 jobs at its two plants in Germany, according to the Handelsblatt newspaper. The largest layoffs of the past 20 years may have to do with the diesel emissions scandal – which erupted at Volkswagen at the end of 2015 – and with Germany’s economic slowdown this year,...
World 20.11.19 | 16:36

V4: Soros declares war from Vienna

The speeches at the opening of the Central European University’s (CEU) campus in Vienna belonged more to a political campaign launch than the official opening ceremony of a scientific institution. CEU founder George Soros launched the ‘Open Society University Network’ initiative in...
News Macedonia 05.11.19 | 18:45

V4 leaders disappointed that Macedonia and Albania were blocked from opening EU accession talks

The prime ministers of the V4 countries expressed their commitment to the further enlargement of the European Union, and condemned the postponing of the accession negotiations with the Western Balkan states as a wrong decision by the European Council, the V4 news agency reported. We are all disappointed...
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