Category: Central Europe

Reflections on the arrest of Ratko Mladić „A difficult period of our history is now over,” Serbian President Boris Tadić told reporters in Belgrade, as he announced the arrest of Ratko Mladić in the northern Vojvodinan village of Lazarevo earlier that day, “we have removed the stain from the face

How Hungary Represents the Western World in Tripoli There is a little known aspect to the Libyan war: as the West was busy trying to bring down the Ghadafi regime, Hungary continued to represent the western world in Ghadafi’s capital of Tripoli. As western planes bombed key installations in the

Prospects for the Polish EU Presidency The EU presidency is not what it used to be but one should not give up on it altogether. Such is at least the mood in Warsaw as Poland prepares to take over from Hungary the steering wheel of the Union. Interestingly, as the

Past and Future In the May edition of Hungarian Review, Janusz Bugajski wrote a sympathetic and sensible analysis on “Visegrád”, the cooperation of the four core Central European states, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. The Visegrád process was initiated twenty years ago on 15 February 1991 and named after