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Ukrainians prove vital force in Poland's labour market, new data reveals

Ukrainian nationals are demonstrating a robust and increasingly significant presence within the Polish labour market, with experts and recent data underscoring their crucial contribution to the nation's economic vitality.

Written by Krzysztof Ryncarz| Euractiv.pl

How Slovak newsrooms cover Ukraine — and why it’s getting harder

From field reporting to newsroom language choices, and a hostile political climate at home, Slovak journalists face mounting challenges in covering the war in Ukraine. Euractiv Slovakia interviewed three Slovak news outlets to find out how they are navigating journalistic dilemmas three years into the conflict.

Written by Natália Silenská | Euractiv.sk

V4 document, investigate Russian war crimes, but not all willing to prosecute in their courts

While conversation on Russia-Ukraine war shifts to discussion of concession Ukraine should or should not make to establish some sort of peace, the count of alleged Russian war crimes keeps growing. Czechia, Slovakia, and Poland are involved in documenting war crimes cases and sharing their findings with international courts, but not all are willing to prosecute under universal jurisdiction in their countries. Ukraine is dealing both with the legal system’s unpreparedness to process over 150,000 cases and the challenge of doing all that during war.

By Ondřej Plevák | Euractiv.cz, Yana Sliemzina | Gwara Media Aleksandra Krzysztoszek | Euractiv.pl, Natália Silenská | Euractiv.sk

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Category: V4 Mirror

Created: 31 July 2018

“…touched by Beijing’s outspoken geopolitical interest in the region and tempted by the opportunity to use China as leverage against Brussels, Central and Eastern European countries failed to consider that they could make good use of some leverage against China as well. If CEE countries might be able to overcome their internal divisions and their innate passivity within the 16+1 cooperation dominated by Chinese initiatives, their foreign policy toolkit could enable them to reach better deals with China, and constrain Beijing in exploiting them at the expense of European foreign policy,” writes Dániel Hegedüs.

Category: V4 Mirror

Created: 30 July 2018

In Visegrad countries, decision makers prefer their historical favourites – coal and nuclear – to renewable sources and energy efficiency. The EU is now the only active and forceful agent that could help the situation, writes Ada Ámon.

Category: Articles

Created: 26 July 2018

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.

Category: V4 Mirror

Created: 25 July 2018

Dynamics of cooperation in the V4+Ukraine format lost pace in the last two years and Kyiv puts hopes into the recently started Slovak V4 Presidency to change it. But Ukraine should understand better how the V4 acts and what the cooperation mechanisms and partners potential are, writes Hennadiy Maksak.