Posted by Cat Contiguglia on July 5, 2011
The Prague Post published on July 5 an interview with European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy Štefan Füle, a native of Sokolov in the Czech Republic. Below is the full text of the interview, where the commissioner goes into greater depth on what countries are in enlargement negotiations and how the situations in Belarus [...]
Posted by Jack Buehrer on July 4, 2011
The Hungarian government has officially handed over the European Presidency to Poland after it’s six-month turn in the rotating post, but one aspect of the country’s largely forgettable semester in charge will remain, at least until the end of the year.
Posted by Jack Buehrer on May 18, 2011
In 1993, John Godson was a Nigerian college student looking to do missionary work abroad. Through various connections he made with ministers and missionaries from around the world, he ended up moving to Poland, making him just one of a few thousand Africans in the entire country. Seventeen years later, he became Poland’s first-ever black [...]
Posted by Cillian O'Donoghue on April 25, 2011
Today Easter Monday April 25th 2011, the Hungarian President Pal Schmitt signed the new Hungarian Constitution which will come into effect on Jan 1st 2012. To get a political analyst’s perspective on the document I caught Andras Biro Nagy of Policy Solutions Consultancy Institute. The Prague Post [TPP]: The Constitution has been signed into law [...]
Posted by Cillian O'Donoghue on April 20, 2011
It seems that it’s not just Central European governments but also energy experts and professionals that are split over the Southern Corridor pipeline debate after a survey published by Limax energy this week showed those interviewed to be at odds over the ongoing Nabucco vs. South Stream Southern Corridor question. Asked which Southern Corridor pipeline [...]
Posted by Jack Buehrer on April 13, 2011
In the early days of U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration, then-U.S. Ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe wrote to the White House that Polish leaders were beginning to fear that they had “become an afterthought, or even a nuisance, in Washington circles.”
Posted by Jack Buehrer on April 11, 2011
Just days after talking to the Prague Post about his most recent charge of insulting Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, journalist Andrzej Poczobut has been arrested for slandering the longtime president and is back in jail.
Posted by Jack Buehrer on April 8, 2011
Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut, a writer for Poland’s daily Gazeta Wyborcza, spoke to The Prague Post after news of the most recent charge against him hit the media. The story ran in our April 6 edition, but the full interview can be read here.
Posted by Cillian O'Donoghue on April 8, 2011
“Neo liberalism is not popular but it is more important than bankruptcy’, that was the stinging theme that ran throughout of Polish Minister for Finance Jacek Rostowski speech on European Governance and the Financial crises at Central European University, Budapest April 7. Rowstowski, in Budapest for a two-day summit to discuss, among other things, the [...]
Posted by Jack Buehrer on April 8, 2011
Welcome to our newest blog, CEE Changes. Borne out of the Region section of our print edition, which covers the Višegrad region of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, (as well as the surrounding developing democracies and non-EU nations such as Ukraine, Belarus and some of the Baltic countries) we intend to use this blog to keep our readers updated on news from outside the Czech Republic. It could be policy news, it could be something fun or strange, or it could be a dispatch from a concert in Warsaw. We’re called The Prague Post, but we aim to inform our region.
