The 19 April vote produced a result without precedent in the country’s recent history. We spoke with Spasimir Domaradzki, Visegrad Insight Fellow and assistant professor at the University of Warsaw, about where Bulgaria and Radev might be heading.

Visegrad Insight sat down with Krzysztof Domarecki, the main shareholder in Selena Group SA – a global leader in construction chemicals – to discuss the current state of Poland and Central and Eastern Europe.

Former F-16 pilot and President Rumen Radev is poised to become Bulgaria’s next prime minister. His Progressive Bulgaria party, representing a broad spectrum from populist to conservative on the left wing of Bulgarian politics, secured a landslide majority as voters signalled deep fatigue with prolonged political instability and corruption.

As Bulgarians head to the polls this Sunday, a manufactured need for change risks producing a new strongman in former President Rumen Radev, who leads a centre-left coalition, speaks the language of protest and may yet steer Sofia closer to Moscow.

Péter Magyar’s Tisza party has won a constitutional majority, promising change not only for Hungary but for the V4 group and the whole of Europe. Is the European Union ready for this transformation?

Elections in Hungary marked the twilight of Moscow’s lingering shadow over European politics. Hungarian voters were primarily concerned with domestic issues – corruption, the economy, healthcare and public services. Yet the loudest chant on the streets, and the one carrying the most consequential implications, was unmistakable: Ruszkik, haza! – Russians,...

As someone in their late twenties, I do not remember a time when I felt proud to be Hungarian – Orbán made that difficult. He built a country many could no longer recognise as their own, yet that has begun to change, led by a generation that has never known...

One year after Donald Trump’s self-declared “Liberation Day”, Visegrad Insight sat down with Elisabeth Braw to examine how globalisation has fractured and what regional alliances can do to safeguard Europe’s economic resilience in the world’s new era of hard-power competition.

The Budapest Stock Exchange and bookmakers are already betting on an imminent change. Yet Viktor Orbán shows no sign of yielding, still insisting that only he represents the homeland and that ‘the homeland cannot be in opposition’. Read our special Easter holiday Weekly Outlook on Democratic and Economic Security.

Foreign influence operations do not create vulnerable societies. They exploit them. Influence operations are most effective when inspired by a massive propaganda machine that builds on existing fears and grievances.