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VISEGRAD BLOG: Poland’s illiberals facing their make or break moment this Sunday
June 26, 2020
President Andrzej Duda's reelection seemed like a formality but is now in doubt after missteps such as an attack on LGBT people. Polls suggest the liberal mayor of Warsaw Rafal Trzaskowski has a real chance to win.
VISEGRAD BLOG: Returning migrants but no COVID baby boom for emerging Europe
June 23, 2020
What does the coronavirus pandemic mean for the region's dismal demographics?
VISEGRAD BLOG: The COVID-19 pandemic may actually strengthen Central and Eastern Europe's position in Europe
June 16, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic may actually strengthen Central and Eastern Europe in relative economic terms to the rest of Europe, argue Marek Belka and Piroska Nagy-Mohacsi (LSE), with Poland being one of the big winners
VISEGRAD BLOG: An average working day at the Hungarian parliament
May 20, 2020
On May 19 MPs voted to strip cultural workers of their public employment status, ban people from legally changing their gender and classify data on Hungary's largest-ever railway reconstruction project.
Poland remembers World War Two: reconciliation and resentment
September 2, 2019
The war, which left Poland in ruins and with 6mn dead, continues to influence politics in the Twitter era — reinforcing reconciliation but also fuelling resentment.