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Three Seas Initiative: Scenarios for 2025

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Three Seas Initiative countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Austria, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria. Source: MKA Graphics / Shutterstock.com

The next Three Seas Summit will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria on 8-9 July 2021. The initiative was created to ‘promote cooperation between 12 European nations and their partners contributing to economic growth and energy security’. Before the summit, we are publishing an excerpt from the report Towards 3SI Civil Society Forum, developed by The Visegrad Insight team.

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05.07.2021

Public hearing for Marian Kocner and Tomas Szabo at the Slovak Supreme Court

A court employee arrives for the public hearing of Marian Kocner and Tomas Szabo who are on trial for charges of ordering and carrying out the murders of Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova, at the Slovak Supreme Court, in Bratislava, Slovakia, June 15, 2021.Source: RADOVAN STOKLASA/Reuters/Forum

The Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Tomáš Szabó, who drove the murderer to the house of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée.

Tomáš Madleňák

22.06.2021

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Photograph of the murdered journalist Jan Kuciak and Martina Kusnirova with the inscription "we will not forget". Bratislava, Slovakia, 16 March 2018. Source: Rosalicka / Shutterstock

The Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic will issue a judgment in the case of the murder of investigative journalist and his fiancée.

Tomáš Madleňák

14.06.2021

Adam Hofman (L), PiS chairman Jarosław Kaczyński (C) and Dawid Jackiewicz (R), 6.05.2014, Wrocław. Source: Bartlomiej Kudowicz / Forum

Adam Hofman was once an influential politician, a member of PiS, Poland’s current ruling party, and now is one of the most recognisable figures in the country’s PR sector. When PiS took power in Poland, his PR agency R4S skilfully positioned itself where the spheres of politics and business meet.

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01.06.2021

Hungary's PM Orban, Poland's PM Morawiecki and Italy's League party leader Salvini meet in Budapest

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban (C), Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki (L) and Italy's League party leader Matteo Salvini (R) give a statement after their meeting in Budapest, Hungary, April 1, 2021. Source: BERNADETT SZABO / Reuters / Forum

The pandemic did not kill the far right. Nor did it stifle media interest in the topic. The painstaking attention devoted to the formation of a ‘Far-Right International’ revolving around the Hungarian Fidesz, the Italian League, and the Polish Law and Justice (PiS) parties is a good case in point.

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28.05.2021

Ordo Iuris collected 150,000 signatures on the "convention on the rights of the family". Pictured Jerzy Kwasniewski. Source: Andrzej Hulimka / Forum

We follow the meanderings of a long campaign to roll back women’s rights and overturn the Istanbul Convention.

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07.05.2021

A woman holds a cross during the protest against the ratification of the Istanbul Convention in Zagreb, Croatia, March 24, 2018. Source: ANTONIO BRONIC / Reuters / Forum

Polish Ordo Iuris is developing its network in Central Europe and co-founding organisations in Estonia and Croatia.

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07.05.2021

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban smiles as he departs from a meeting at the EU summit in Brussels, Belgium July 20, 2020. Source: JOHANNA GERON / Reuters / Forum

The Hungarian Center for Fundamental Rights, one of the Polish Ordo Iuris’s partners, has close ties to PM Viktor Orbán.

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07.05.2021