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Although the Visegrad Group’s members are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the collapse of communist dictatorships this year, multilevel EU procedures are ongoing against Hungary and Poland for rule of law deficiencies. According to the assessment of global democracy indexes, the quality of democratic governance fell considerably in the most eminent students of the democratic transition, while political and civil rights have also been restricted.
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Member states, the European Parliament and the Commission successfully finished almost three years of negotiation on a copyright reform. The clashes were concerned primary to articles 11 and 13. Stances of the states differed a lot and the Visegrad countries were not an exception.
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Although there basically isn’t anything like a specific chapter of V4-Turkey relations, all the five countries realize the importance of trade cooperation and strategic support. Yet, after Erdoğan tightened his grip to achieve even more power, Visegrad countries prefer to coordinate their positions on issues regarding human rights and civil society via Brussels.
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The key issues for the V4 as far as the next Multiannual financial framework is concerned are the amount of subsidies allocated to it to converge with the more developed parts of the EU and the idea of tying payments to rule of law-related requirements.
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EU cautious on summer payments of blocked funds to Hungary
Hungary has made progress on bolstering guarantees of judicial independence but is "not quite there yet", and needs to improve democratic credentials in other areas before getting billions worth of blocked European Union funds, officials said on Thursday (30 March).
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Scuffles at Kyiv monastery as Church accused of Russia ties resists eviction
Scuffles broke out outside a Kyiv monastery on Thursday (30 March) after a Ukrainian branch of the Orthodox Church that the government says has ties with Russia defied an eviction order.
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Salvini: France rejects migrants but ‘keeps terrorists’
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