CEE auto, steel at sharp end of Trump tariffs

3 min read Analysis, Austria, Business, Czech Republic, DACH & Slovenia, Economy, EU, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, V4 & Romania, auto, Belgium, Boeing, China, France, green transition, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Steel, switzerland, tariffs, Trump, Turkey, UK

US President Donald Trump’s new raft of global tariffs threatens to hammer the export-driven economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), with his 25% duty on foreign-made cars posing a direct risk to regional manufacturing. As highly integrated suppliers in Germany-led EU value chains, Slovakia, Hungary and Czechia are

Poland could overtake all other NATO countries except US - ex-NATO policy director

2 min read Poland, Apache, Blaszczak, Boeing, helicopters

The purchase of Apache helicopters is a very good and militarily sensible investment (and) confirms that Poland could have the strongest army in NATO after the United States,” former Europe and NATO policy head Jim Townsend told Polish state news agency PAP on Saturday, 26th August. The respected defence expert’