Catégorie : Central Europe
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The evolution of the systemic position of the Prime Minister of Hungary – legal regulations and constitutional practice.
By Jacek Wojnicki, Warsaw University. This article has already been published in Przegląd Prawa Konstytucyjnego (Polish Review of Constitutional Law), 2020, 5 (57), 481-499. doi: 10.15804/ppk.2020.05.35. The analysis looks at the evolution of the systemic position of the Prime Minister of Hungary both in the context of existing legal and constitutional regulations and the developed…
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Robert Fico at CPAC.
By Sean Hanley, University College London. This contribution is drawn from an article written by Sean Hanley on his webiste. Be sure to subscribe to it if you want to be informed of his future contributions and to support his work. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was a slightly unexpected new addition to yesterday’s Conservative…
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Central Europe is, both literally and figuratively, not in a good place.
By Sean Hanley, University College London. This contribution is drawn from an article written by Sean Hanley on his webiste. Be sure to subscribe to it if you want to be informed of his future contributions and to support his work. More than a century ago Czechoslovakia’s future founder-president wrote of the Problem of Small Nations in…
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Slovakia without snap elections for now.
By Juraj Marušiak, Institute of Political Science of Slovak Academy of Science, Bratislava. In addition to the sharp polarisation of society between the government camp and the opposition, which concerns the issue of the state’s relationship with civil society, as well as the attitude towards the EU and the war in Ukraine, Slovak politics has…
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(Conservative) Troubles in Prague.
By Michel Perottino, Charles University, Prague. It is an understatement to say that Trump’s arrival was expected: finally, a president who lives up to the expectations of Czech conservatives, especially at a time when the space on the right is becoming particularly (too) full. Trump´s victory was supposed to support certain political lines (put the…