Slovak Coalition on the Verge of Breakdown

This week, fast-developing events in Central Europe appear to overtake the pace of opinion and analyses. While every day brings new revelations concerning PKN Orlen CEO and Kaczyński-protégé Daniel Obtajtek in  Poland, the Slovak coalition government led by Igor Matovič appears to have reached a dead-end following the prime minister's brash decision to order Sputnik V vaccines from Russia. While mentioning highlights on the website this week, we discuss these recent news stories before turning to excerpts from a debate between MEPs Michal Šimečka (SK), Anna  Júlia Donáth (HU) and Sergey Lagodinsky (DE) on media freedom and what the EU can do to protect pluralism and independence. MEPs debate on media freedom: https://visegradinsight.eu/debate-with-meps-freedom-of-media-in-ce/ Daniel Obajtek's transparency problem: https://visegradinsight.eu/corruption-daniel-obajteks-transparency-problem/ The recovery funds' role in a V4 economic transition: https://visegradinsight.eu/can-the-recovery-funds-enable-a-visegrad-economic-transition/ #media #pluralism #covid19 #sputnikv #Russia #EU