BIRN’s Reporting Democracy Travel & Reporting Programme invites journalists from the Visegrad region to apply for a grant that covers professional fees and field reporting expenses.
Elsewhere, Slovak PM praises Uzbekistan’s model of governance on visit to Central Asian nation; Poland’s coalition government wins confidence vote; and ANO leader Babis visits France for hard-right gathering of Patriots for Europe.
In a sign of the shift in thinking among Poles, especially the youth, 20 of the country's citizens are due to arrive in Cairo on Thursday, from where they will join thousands of others from around the world in a global ‘March to Gaza’.
Since returning to power 15 years ago, Orban has worked to weaken judicial independence. In February, thousands of judges protested publicly for the first time. After a close ally of the PM threatened to blacklist them, many now fear losing their freedom of expression. Yet some judges continue to stand their ground.
After months of legal uncertainty, the Czech government rushed to sign the contract for the construction of two new nuclear reactors, but an EU investigation into the deal is still a possibility.
