1. Hungary: Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has spoken on the telephone with the President-elect of the United States Donald Trump, who has invited him to Washington. The Prime Minister said that Hungary’s position has improved significantly, and Mr.Trump made it clear that he thinks highly of Hungary

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Authors: Thomas Piketty (Professor of economics at the Paris School of Economics and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales); Jeremy Adelman (Professor of history and Director of the Global History Lab at Princeton University); Anne-Laure Delatte (Research scholar at France’s National Center for Scientific Research and a visiting lecturer at Princeton University).

In October, the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs committee endorsed a document titled “EU Strategic Communication to Counteract Propaganda Against It by Thirdparties”. Without supporting evidence, it accused Moscow of spreading “disinformation and propaganda seeking to maintain or increase (its) influence to weaken and split the EU.”