Bringing you the most important political and security stories from Central and Eastern Europe.

What's inside?

• The political dynamics between President Trump and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and the positioning of Hungary as a partner to Russia – amid European leaders’ criticism
• Slovakia’s dependence on Russian energy
• Poland’s economic security, with takeaways from the Europe Future Forum in Warsaw

 With contributions from:

• Magda Jakubowska – Visegrad Insight
• Bartosz Wieliński – Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Gazeta Wyborcza
• Kateřina Šafaříková – Czech journalist, Head of the OP-EDs desk at Seznam Zprávy
• Andrej Nosko – Visiting researcher, Faculty of Political Sciences and International Relations, Matej Bel University
• Eva Mihockova – Editor-in-Chief, Slovak Foreign Policy Association