Tim Gosling

Pres­sure is ris­ing to in­clude the Russ­ian nu­clear sec­tor in the Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion’s 11th sanc­tion pack­age plans.

Those wish­ing to re­con­nect with their her­itage say the gov­ern­ment in Prague must scrap a com­mu­nist-era law.

Bu­dapest with­draws from a Russ­ian-con­trolled bank af­ter it was sanc­tioned, but ties with West­ern pow­ers re­main shaky.

For­mer NATO Gen­er­al Petr Pavel will be­come the fourth pres­i­dent of the Czech Re­pub­lic.

Af­ter a years-long cam­paign by Roma ac­tivists, a pig farm that stood on a for­mer con­cen­tra­tion camp is be­ing re­moved.

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.