Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban criticized European Union’s plans to impose another round of economic sanctions against Russia in response to its intervention in Ukraine. ...

Victor Orban’s ruling Fidesz party looks set to retain its two-thirds majority in Hungarian parliamentary elections to be held April 6, according to opinion polls cited by the Budapest Times. ...

The leader of the Russian liberal democratic political party LDPR, Vladimir Zhyrinovsky, announed that Poland, Hungary and Romania could share the territory of Ukraine between them, the Ukrainian daily media Fakty.ua wrote March 24. ...

Hungarian oil and gas incumbent MOL announced plans to sell shares in Croatian oil company INA, the Hungarian media reported. ...

Almost half of the new EU budget will be allocated to six countries from Central and Eastern Europe, including: Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary [‘CEE-6’], Polish business daily Puls Biznesu reported March 13. ...

An EU Anti-Corruption Report, published at the start of Feb., found that the health sectors in Hungary, Poland and Slovakia were most likely to be plagued by bribery. ...

The Czech Republic gained the highest place out of the whole CEE region in terms of economic freedom, according to a survey carried out by international research institute , The Heritage Foundation. ...

Cyber-attacks, reportedly launched in China, infiltrated the foreign ministries of Latvia, Czech Republic, Portugal, Hungary and Bulgaria, according to a report by computer security company FireEye, published December 2013. ...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is close to owning majority stakes in most of Hungary’s major publications, which could seriously undermine Hungarian media freedoms, media insiders report. ...