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.

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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.