Tim Gosling

Cit­ing ‘un­ful­filled ex­pec­ta­tions’, Prague con­sid­ers leav­ing Chi­na’s 16+1 in­vest­ment club for Cen­tral and East­ern Eu­rope.

The Hun­gar­i­an strong­man will have to ad­just his gov­ern­ment’s out­look, pun­dits on both sides of the fence say.

Al­though Vik­tor Or­ban is fac­ing his tough­est elec­tion since 2010, polls sug­gest the in­cum­bent will win.

Hun­gar­i­ans go to polls on April 3 to choose be­tween ‘more au­to­crati­sa­tion or re-de­moc­ra­ti­sa­tion’, an­a­lysts say.

An awk­ward al­liance of six dis­parate par­ties seeks to de­feat Or­ban’s gov­ern­ing Fidesz par­ty in Hun­gary’s April 3 polls.

PM Vik­tor Or­ban and his chal­lenger ad­just their cam­paign fo­cus to re­flect the Russ­ian in­va­sion in Ukraine.

Cri­sis sur­round­ing Ukraine shines the spot­light on Hun­gary prime min­is­ter’s re­la­tion­ship with Russ­ian pres­i­dent.

Poland, Slo­va­kia and oth­er states are ready to wel­come Ukraini­ans flee­ing ten­sions with Rus­sia.

The re­cent vote sur­prised many who ex­pect­ed Babis to eas­i­ly win, and there are oth­er hints pop­ulism is wan­ing.

Mi­los Ze­man, who backs the bil­lion­aire pre­mier, has an­nounced he will use his role to ap­point the next PM.