A Member of the European Parliament since 2019 and former Polish Foreign Affairs Minister, Witold Waszczykowski, has launched a group named "Friends of the Three Seas Initiative"  in the ECR parliamentary group of the European Parliament. Witold Waszczykowski / Photo credit: OLIVIER HOSLET / EPA / PAP/EPA (jap)

We do not need more Europe, but a smarter Europe. There should be deeper integration where joint EU action is more effective than national action – Hungarian Minister of Justice Judit Varga told "Magyar Hírlap" daily.   ​ PHOTO CREDIT: JUDIT VARGA'S PRESS OFFICE

– 200 Polish doctors and medical staff members will assist their Slovak peers in coronavirus testing programme – Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday before their departure.  PHOTO CREDIT: Piotr Nowak / PAP   (jap)

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were sworn in at the US Capitol. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán congratulated Joe Biden in a letter on Wednesday. Photo credit. Gripas Yuri/ABACA/PAP

Emmanuel Macron has found a new ally who is far more influential than people give him credit for: Viktor Orbán – writes Swedish economist and writer Friderik Erixon in the prestigious British conservative newspaper "The Spectator". Photo credit: OLIVIER HOSLET, PAP/EPA

– Millions of Chinese vaccines could be obtained quickly by the government if the Hungarian health authority allowed it – PM Viktor Orbán said in his usual Friday morning interview on Kossuth Radio. The Prime Minister also announced that from 2022, at the latest, persons under the age of 25 years will be granted exemption from the payment of the personal income tax. The Hungarian government has started the gradual re-introduction of the 13th monthly pension, so in February the envelope will…

– We will support each other among the Visegrad Group countries in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic - announced Elżbieta Witek, the Speaker of the Sejm (a lower house of the Polish Parliament) after the conference of the Speakers of the Parliaments of the V4 countries.  ​

The Tricolor Citizens' Movement (Trikolóra) in Czech Republic aims to introduce regular referendums on withdrawal from the European Union. – We will request a referendum on remaining in the Union to be part of every parliamentary election – says Václav Klaus Jr., the son of former Czech Prime Minister Václav Klaus. ​

"That conflict, that battle between a more democratic inclusive vision, and one that’s top-down, dominant-subordinate, that’s a contest that’s taking place here in the United States, and around the world" said former US president Barack Obama in an interview with Daily Show host Trevor Noah.

– We will continue to defend ourselves against illegal migration both at the southern border and in Brussels – said Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó on Monday.  ​  Péter Szijjártó / Fot. Adam Warżawa/PAP  

– We chose a different type of crisis management than the West because, whereas they've opted to preserve consumption levels, we've tried to preserve jobs – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in  his first interview in 2021.

– We, the Poles, have demonstrated incredible determination and sacrifice. We have shown our best traits: solidarity, kindness, readiness to cooperate, understanding – said Polish President Andrzej Doda said in his New Year's Eve address to the nation.   (jap, fot. printscreen/KPRP)