February consumer price inflation in Europe accelerated by 5.9% compared to last year’s 0.9% per annum, marking the fastest annual jump on record, Eurostat statistics agency said on Thursday. The indicator rose sharply from 5.1% in January. Prices spiked most in Lithuania (14.0%), Estonia (11.6%) and the Czech Republic (10.0%). The lowest annual price rise…
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Hungary will not tolerate these accusations from the US, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said Budapest has protested the remarks by US President Joe Biden that the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is seeking to establish a “dictatorship.” Hungary will not tolerate these “lies,” Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told journalists on Tuesday.
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Estonia announced on Friday that it intends to build hundreds of bunkers along its border with Russia. Fellow NATO members Latvia and Lithuania have signed on to the project as well. Defense ministers of the three Baltic states met in Riga and approved the construction of what they called “anti-mobility defensive installations” on their eastern…
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