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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 has signed with the UK a GBP 1.9bn export agreement to roll out a British short-range air defence system, the latter government announced on Friday, 28 April. According to the agreement, the UK will equip Poland with 22 air defence batteries with UK Common Anti-Air Modular Missiles (CAMMs)
Hauliers associations in Poland and Hungary say their members are not interested in the UK government’s offer of three-month work visas as an attempted solution to its growing petrol queues and lorry driver shortage. Over a million Poles and hundreds of thousands of Hungarians have lived and worked in
The high number of EU citizens from Romania stopped and questioned before entering the UK during the first half of 2021 has prompted one MEP from Romania to call for an investigation. Freedom of movement rules changed after Brexit and in the first six months of this year around 60%