![V4 ministers consider digitalisation one of the most significant development of the economy since the industrial revolution. [Pixabay]](/images/digi_tax.jpg "V4 ministers consider digitalisation one of the most significant development of the economy since the industrial revolution. [Pixabay]")
- Category: Articles
European union Member states have scrapped a Commission's plan to establish a system to tax internet giants like Google or Facebook. In a bid to break a deadlock, EU executive arm have called for a move to a qualified majority voting on tax issues. The V4 countries, however, clearly reject to kill national vetoes on tax policy. Their governments are now likely to bring in their own national digital tax laws.
- Category: V4 Mirror
As we approach the European Parliamentary elections, Eurosceptic political rhetoric in Hungary and Poland is once again rising. It is hardly surprising given the critical view the governing parties and their leaders, Viktor Orbán and Jaroslaw Kaczyński share towards the European Union and some of its policies.
![Robert Dúbravec - Power conciousness, 1957. [WebUmenia.sk/Stredoslovenská galéria]](/images/vedomie_sily.jpg "Robert Dúbravec - Power conciousness, 1957. [WebUmenia.sk/Stredoslovenská galéria]")
- Category: Articles
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.
![Czechoslovak Consul typewriter. [Wikimedia/Commons]](/images/consul.jpg "Czechoslovak Consul typewriter. [Wikimedia/Commons]")
- Category: Articles
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.
Support
Partners
RSS - EURACTIV
-
Generative AI puts trust in the news media to the test
The spread of fake news and disinformation has steadily risen in past years, with audiences increasingly getting their news online, where false information - sometimes generated by AI - spreads faster, threatening audiences' trust in media.
-
Experts warn of low consumption of whole grain in the EU and say schools are key
Whole grains must be integrated into diets early in life to create healthy habits and curb life-threatening diseases, say experts, who call for the inclusion of grains into the EU School Scheme and public procurement of food. While sugar and...
-
Early HIV testing key to Europe’s 2030 targets – report
A new World Health Organisation (WHO) report released ahead of Friday (1 December), World AIDS Day, argues that there is still a long way to go to hit global HIV reduction targets by 2030, underlining the importance of early and tailored testing.