The immediate effects of COVID-19 on the global flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) were devastating, resulting in a large drop. Flows to the Visegrad countries were also affected but less than the world average. The fall in FDI was the result of underlying trends that started before the...

Based on the analysis of the case of the Hungarian oil and gas firm MOL, target of a hostile takeover bid first by Austria’s OMV (2007), then by Russia’s Surgutneftegaz (2009), this essay attempts to show how such hostile takeover bids in an industry (energy) deemed strategic by the host...