Speaking at the University of Heidelberg, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki continued the traditions of the European duumvirate: France and Germany. Emmanuel Macron gave an important speech in 2017 at the Sorbonne in Paris, and Olaf Scholz last year in Prague at the Charles University. "They both talked mainly about the future of Europe, which, in their opinion, means more EU above all," notes ONDŘEJ ŠMIGOL on the Echo24.cz website. "Morawiecki also spoke mainly about the future…

"Poland’s position is very clear: Poland is not a part of this war and does not want to be a part of any other war" - the secretary of state in the Chancellery of the President of Poland Marcin Przydacz, said.

“It is a lie that Hungary vetoed the EU statement on the International Criminal Court (ICC) case,” Hungarian Foreign Affairs spokesman Máté Paczolay told the Hungarian State News Agency, MTI on Monday evening.  A placard showing a picture of Russian president Vladimir Putin with the direction of The Hague, the seat of the UN

Ukraine will have only one attempt at a major counter-offensive. If it fails, it will be extremely difficult to get funding for the next one, Czech President Petr Pavel said in an interview for Rzeczpospolita Daily.    Petr Pavel in Poland. Photo by Roman Vondrous/PAP/CTK (JAP)

Slovakia has become the second country to approve sending 13 fighter jets to Ukraine after Poland announced it would send four yesterday. 

Even if the government of Viktor Orbán campaigned for Hungary to leave the European Union, two-thirds of the country's population would vote to remain in the EU, HVG.hu reports, publishing a poll conducted by the Median research institute.

The Czech Republic earned 92 out of 100 possible points this year in Freedom House's ranking of world's democracies. Slovakia earned 90 points, Poland 81 points and Hungary 66 points. The US earned 83 points, Russia 16 and Belarus only 8 points out of 100.

The world has never been so close to turning a local war into a world war, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told Kossuth Rádió.

Petr Pavel, pro-Western war hero, was sworn in as Czech Republic's new president on Thursday.     Photo by Vit Simanek/PAP/CTK (JAP)

The consumer price index (CPI) increased 25.4 percent year-on-year in February after a 25.7 percent rise in January, driven mostly by household energy and food prices, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said on Wednesday. Month on month, prices edged up by 0.8%. Fot. Csaba Nagy/Pixabay   

 - I believe that the ties that bind us are much stronger than the points on which we disagree at the moment, Katalin Novák said about the cooperation within the V4 Group, which includes Slovakia and Poland in addition to the Czech Republic and Hungary.  Katalin Novák and Czech Miloš Zeman. Photo by MTI/Noémi Bruzák

We’re under constant pressure. They want to force us into war, and they’re using all the tools they can. So far we’ve managed to resist. This gives me hope. Hungary’s political leadership is strong enough to keep our country out of the war.

Some 62% of companies surveyed by recruiting site Profession.hu plan pay rises of 6-10% this year. Photo by Csaba Nagy / Pixabay  (JAP)

The Vatican announced the three-day “apostolic journey”, the pontiff’s 41st visit abroad since he was elected in 2013, will include meetings with Hungary’s heads of state and government on Friday. (JAP)

In the third episode of The Bold Truth About Hungary's second season, State Secretary Zoltán Kovács discussed the main elements of Hungary's "unorthodox" economic policy, widely known as the "Hungarian model," with Finance Minister Mihály Varga. Source: YouTube Cover photo by OLIVIER HOSLET/PAP/EPA

Richard Hörcsik, chairman of the Parliament's European Affairs Committee, proposed the renovation of the 150-year-old first railway line in Galicia next year at the international conference called Europe of the Carpathians, held in Krasiczyn, southeastern Poland, on Saturday.