While the EU continues to talk about austerity, populism and deficit, among the 28 members of the Union, there are some countries that, silently, could surprise us all: Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Czech Republic, in fact, are four nations that, despite the present economic crisis forces many governments to review their balance sheets, continue to collect not simply economic successes , but political ones.

It’s not by chance that many big corporations among the most important in the world, such as Audi, IBM or Mercedes-Benz, have decided to inaugurate their new productive branches in the area that, from Tychy, reaches Budapest. 

Local elections in Slovakia are recently concluded and after the disappointing election results recorded, the country has already begun to question the outcome of the same, two factors have amazed the Slovak political class: hand, the landslide victory of abstentionism, always a sign of distrust of the leadership of the country and lack of attention in the political life of the nation (only 20% of eligible voters went to the polls), and second, the equally overwhelming "victory" in the region of Banska Bystrica of Marian Kotleba, leader of Ľudová Strana Naše Slovensko, ultra-nationalist party of the extreme right that has got to be known for his radical stances on issues such as immigration and Rom.