Magyarország - Úton Vagyunk

Winner of the week: 🥇49

Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe with around 9.6 million inhabitants. Located in the Pannonian Basin and traversed by the Danube, the country borders on Slovakia and Ukraine to the north, Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south and Slovenia and Austria to the west. The capital and largest city is Budapest; Other major cities include Debrecen, Szeged, Miskolc, Pécs and Győr.

Hungary was one of the first Eastern Bloc countries to become a democracy on October 23, 1989 and joined NATO in 1999. The country has been a member of the European Union since 2004 and, together with Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, forms the Visegrád Group.

However, since right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán took office in 2010, the country has again become increasingly authoritarian. Therefore, in 2022, the European Commission initiated constitutional proceedings against a member state for the first time. The European Parliament also denied a member state the right to be a democracy for the first time. In the same year, the other EU states blocked the payment of several billion euros to a member state for the first time for this reason.

Magyarország - Vagyunk

Hungary 🥇 - Úton Vagyunk

Bŭlgariya - Nie Sme Na Pŭt

Winner of the week: 🥇58*

Bulgaria is a republic in southeastern Europe with around 6.5 million inhabitants. The country occupies most of the eastern Balkan Peninsula and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east. Bulgaria covers an area of ​​110,994 square kilometers and lies in the temperate climate zone. Sofia is the capital and also the largest city in the country; other larger cities are Plovdiv, Varna and Burgas. Bulgaria has been a member of NATO since 2004 and joined the European Union in 2007.
In what is now Bulgaria there is the earliest evidence of the presence of humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and the Neolithic Karanovo culture, which dates back to 6500 BC. Dating back to the 1st century BC, one of the earliest settlements on the continent. In the 6th to 3rd centuries B.C. In the 4th century BC the region came under tension between the Thracians, Persians, Celts and Greeks. Stability came when the Roman Empire managed to conquer the region in 45 AD. With the decline and division of the empire, invasions by different groups began again in the region. The Goths immigrated in the 4th century and created the only written source of their language here. Around the 6th century, the areas were settled by the early Slavs. The Proto-Bulgarians, led by the brothers Asparuch and Kuwer, left the territory of (old) (Greater) Bulgaria and settled permanently on the Balkan Peninsula in the late 7th century. They founded two empires called Bulgaria, one between the Danube and the Balkan Mountains and one in the area around today's Bitola in the west of the peninsula. The Danube Empire, which was recognized by treaty by the Eastern Roman Empire in 681, over time united with the Empire of Kuwer. This First Bulgarian Empire ruled most of the southern Balkan Peninsula and significantly influenced Slavic cultures through the development of the Cyrillic script at the court of the Bulgarian tsars and the establishment of the Bulgarian Patriarchate.
Old Bulgarian literature and literature formed the third largest cultural and religious area in medieval Europe. The empire existed until the early 11th century, when the Byzantine Emperor Basil II conquered and subjugated it. A successful Bulgarian revolt in 1185 established a Second Bulgarian Empire, which reached its peak under Ivan Asen II (1218–1241). After numerous exhausting wars and feudal struggles, the empire dissolved in 1396 and the region fell under Ottoman rule for almost five centuries.

Today Bulgaria is a parliamentary republic consisting of 28 provinces with a high degree of political, administrative and economic centralization. With an upper-middle income economy, the United Nations Development Program ranks Bulgaria among high human development countries. Its market economy is part of the European internal market and is based largely on services, followed by industry - particularly engineering and mining - and agriculture. Bulgaria is the world's largest producer of lavender oil and has a long tradition of rose cultivation and rose oil production. The country is facing a demographic crisis as its population has been shrinking annually since around 1990. Compared to a peak of almost nine million inhabitants in 1988, today there are only around 6.5 million. Bulgaria has been a member of NATO since March 29, 2004 and a member of the European Union (EU) and the Council of Europe since January 1, 2007, a founding member of the OSCE and has held a seat on the United Nations Security Council three times.

Bulgaria - Nie Sme Na Put

Bulgaria 🥇 - Nie Sme Na Put

ပြည်ထောင်စု သမ္မတ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် (Pyidaunzu Thanmăda Myăma Nainngandaw) - သွားနေ၊ (Swarr Nay)

Winner of the week: 🥇17

Myanmar or Burma, is a country in Southeast Asia bordering Thailand, Laos, the People's Republic of China, northeastern India, Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal.

The country has no longer been part of the Empire of British India since 1948 and has therefore been independent of the United Kingdom ever since. The country has been under de facto military rule since 1962, which only had some democratic elements from 2011 to 2021. In a coup on February 1, 2021, the military took back all state power. As a result, a civil war broke out in the country between the military-dominated State Administration Council (SAC) and the opposition National Unity Government of Myanmar (NUG). By 2023, the military had lost control of large parts of the country.

The military government rules in an authoritarian manner and there are numerous human rights violations. In the democracy index, Myanmar was in second to last place worldwide in 2021 and 2022, behind North Korea and only ahead of Afghanistan.

Myanmar - Swarr Nay

Myanmar 🥇 - Swarr Nay

Rzeczpospolita Polska - W Jednosci Naprzód

Winner of the month: 🏆Feb'25
Winner of the week: 🥇19

Poland is a parliamentary republic in Central Europe. The country's capital is Warsaw (Polish: Warszawa), and its largest metropolitan area is the Katowice Metropolitan Area (GZM). Other cities with over 400,000 inhabitants are Kraków, Łódź, Wrocław, Poznań, and Gdańsk. Poland is a unitary state divided into 16 voivodeships. With an area of ​​312,696 square kilometers, Poland is the sixth-largest country in the European Union and, with 38.18 million inhabitants, the fifth most populous. The climate is predominantly oceanic in the north and west, and continental in the south and east.

In the early Middle Ages, tribes of the western Polans settled in parts of what is now the country's territory during the Great Migration Period. The first documented mention of Poland dates back to 966, under the first historically documented Polish duke, Mieszko I, who opened the country to Christianity. In 1025, the Kingdom of Poland was founded, until it united with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1569 through the Union of Lublin to form the Royal Republic of Poland-Lithuania, becoming one of the largest and most influential states in Europe. During this period, Europe's first modern constitution was created in 1791.

Poland - W Jednosci Naprzód

Poland 🏆🥇 - W Jednosci Naprzód

جمهورية العراق (Dschumhūriyyat al-ʿIrāq) - نُكملُ الدربَ (Nukml Aldrba)

Iraq is a country in the Middle East. Iraq borders Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Iran, and the Persian Gulf and encompasses most of Mesopotamia, a region located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, where the earliest advanced civilizations of the Middle East emerged, as well as parts of the adjacent desert and mountain regions. It is considered one of the Mashreq states. The north of the country is formed by the autonomous region of Kurdistan, which has its own parliament and armed forces (Peshmerga).

With approximately 43 million inhabitants (as of 2023), Iraq is one of the five largest countries in the Arab world. Its capital and largest city is the metropolis of Baghdad; other cities with populations of over one million include Basra, Mosul, Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Najaf, Kirkuk, and Karbala. Due to refugee movements in the 20th and 21st centuries, the country experienced rapid urbanization. Iraq ranks fourth in the world list of countries with the most natural resources; its economy is based primarily on oil exports and, to a lesser extent, on agriculture.

Present-day Iraq emerged in 1920 from the three Ottoman provinces of Baghdad, Mosul, and Basra. The Kingdom of Iraq existed from 1921 to 1958. In 1958, the king was overthrown in a military coup, and a republic was proclaimed. From 1979 to 2003, the country was ruled dictatorially by Saddam Hussein, waging war against neighboring Iran and Kuwait. A multinational invasion force ("Coalition of the Willing") led by the United States overthrew Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003 without establishing stable structures for the post-war era.

After the declared end of the war, the occupation of Iraq from 2003 to 2011 saw civil war-like conditions, thousands of terrorist attacks, acts of war, and violent crime, both by various Iraqi groups against each other and against the Western occupation forces. They caused an unknown number of deaths and injuries, especially among Iraqi civilians. Starting in December 2013, a war broke out between Iraq and ISIS, which seized parts of the country. In December 2017, the Iraqi government announced that the Iraqi armed forces had taken full control of the Syrian-Iraqi border and that the war against ISIS was over.

Iraq - Nukml Aldrba

Україна (Ukrajina) - Ми йдемо вперед (My Ydemo Vpered)

Ukraine 
is a country in Eastern Europe with more than 37 million inhabitants. With an area of ​​603,628 square kilometers it is the second largest country in Europe after Russia and the largest country whose territory lies entirely within the continent. The country borders Russia to the east and northeast, Belarus to the north, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, and Romania and Moldova to the southwest. To the south, Ukraine borders the Black Sea and the Sea of ​​Azov. The capital and largest metropolis of the country is Kyiv; other urban centers are Kharkiv, Dnipro, Donetsk and Odessa.

Ukraine, like its neighboring countries Russia and Belarus, traces its state tradition back to the medieval Kyiv Empire. Since its fall during the Mongol invasion of the 13th century, the territory of Ukraine has alternately belonged, in whole or in part, to the dominions of the Golden Horde, Poland-Lithuania, the Russian Empire, and the Habsburg Monarchy. The Ukrainian People's Republic, founded after the October Revolution of 1917 during the Russian Civil War, was the first attempt to establish Ukraine as a community and achieve state independence, but it did not control all of the territories of what would later become Ukraine. As early as the end of January/beginning of February 1918, Kyiv was (initially only briefly) in the hands of the Red Army. Almost a year later, in January 1919, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed, territorially consisting of the southwestern Krai of the Tsarist era (west of the Dnieper) and Little Russia with the governorates of Kharkov/Kharkiv, Poltava and Chernigov/Chernihiv. When the Soviet Union was founded in 1922, it was one of its founding members. At Stalin's instigation, the Soviet republics of Belarus and Ukraine also gained membership in the United Nations when it was founded in 1945. In 1954, Nikita Khrushchev subordinated Crimea, which had previously belonged to the Russian Federation (RSFSR), to Ukraine. Only after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 did Ukraine regain sovereignty, receiving international recognition for the first time. In return for Ukraine renouncing the Soviet nuclear weapons stationed on its territory, Russia, the United States, and Great Britain guaranteed the country's independence and existing borders in the Budapest Memorandum of 1994.

In February 2014, following Russia's annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbas, a conflict erupted between the two countries that continues to this day. Crimea and parts of Donbas have been under Russian control ever since. On February 21, 2022, Russia recognized the "People's Republics" of Donetsk and Luhansk, proclaimed by pro-Russian separatists, as independent states from Ukraine (only to formally annex them a few months later). On February 24, 2022, the invasion of Ukraine began, with Russian troops invading Ukraine from Russia, Belarus, the Black Sea, and previously occupied territories. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared a state of war and martial law.

After the attack on the capital Kyiv, which was repelled by Ukraine, the war shifted primarily to the east and southeast of the country, with the exception of airstrikes. As of June 1, 2022, according to UNHCR estimates, 4.7 million people from Ukraine were registered as refugees in Europe. A total of over 7.9 million people have fled Ukraine, and another 5.9 million have become internally displaced within Ukraine. According to the United Nations, this is the largest refugee movement worldwide since World War II.

Ukraine - My Ydemo Vpered

الجمهورية اليمنية (al-Dschumhūriyya al-Yamaniyya) - نبتسم (Nahn Namdi Ma'an)

Winner of the week: 🥇57*

Yemen is a country in the Middle East, in the south of the Arabian Peninsula. Yemen borders Saudi Arabia to the north, Oman to the east, the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea to the south, and the Red Sea to the west. The states of Djibouti and Eritrea are located across the Red Sea, about 20 and 30 kilometers apart, respectively. Yemen also includes the Socotra archipelago and numerous smaller islands in the Bab al-Mandab in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea. However, the state of Yemen has collapsed due to the civil war; several de facto states currently exist on the former territory described above.

In 1990, the two former states, the Yemeni Arab Republic (JAR, "North Yemen"; capital: Sanaa) and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (DPJ, "South Yemen", capital: Aden), united to form the current state. A civil war has raged since 2013. In this conflict, the Houthi militias succeeded in capturing the capital, Sanaa, and large parts of the country. On March 25, 2015, Saudi Arabia, with the military cooperation of eight other states (the Islamic Military Coalition), launched a military intervention called Operation Decisive Storm to support the central government under President Hadi and Prime Minister Khalid Bahah. This massively escalated the conflict and is considered a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran. As of April 1, 2022, 4.3 million people are internally displaced due to the war in the country. Seventy percent of the population depends on international aid for survival.

Yemen - Nahn Namdi Ma'an

Yemen 🥇 - Nahn Namdi Ma'an

Nederland - We Zijn Onderweg

Winner of the week: 🥇45

The Netherlands are one of the four autonomous countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The country, which lies largely in northern Western Europe, is bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south and Germany to the east. The European part of the Netherlands covers 41,543 square kilometers and has 17,947,684 inhabitants (January 1, 2024). The capital of the Netherlands is Amsterdam, the seat of government and parliament is The Hague. The official national color is orange.

In addition to the twelve provinces of the European part, the territory of the Netherlands includes the Caribbean islands of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (including their respective subsidiary islands), which are special municipalities of the country. Other Dutch Caribbean territories are not part of the country of the Netherlands, but are autonomous countries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. These are the countries of Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten.

After belonging to the Middle Kingdom, Eastern Francia and the Holy Roman Empire, the year 1581 with the Plakkaat van Verlatinghe is considered the birth of the United Netherlands, which was finally recognized in 1648 with the Peace of Münster. The Netherlands became a trading, colonial and maritime power. The 17th century is described as the Golden Age. During this period, the Netherlands was the “laboratory of capitalism” and developed institutions and technologies such as joint stock companies, stock exchange trading and cashless payments. “The Dutch can claim, more than most other nations, to have invented globalization” (Christoph Driessen). The constitution of the Netherlands dates back to the time of the Congress of Vienna in 1814/1815.

Together with Belgium and Luxembourg, the Netherlands forms the Benelux Union. The Netherlands is a founding member of the Montanunion in 1951, from which several successors and the European Union (EU) developed in 1992.

Netherlands - We Zijn Onderweg

Netherlands 🥇 - We Zijn Onderweg

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Majuro - Pacific Haze

Majuro ([maˈd͜ʒuːro], Marshallese: Mājro) is the capital of the Marshall Islands. It is located on the Majuro Atoll, which consists of 64 islands. The majority of the population is concentrated in the Delap-Uliga-Darrit territory, which comprises the islands of Delap, Uliga, and Darrit.

Some sources, primarily in German, mistakenly refer to the island group of Delap-Uliga-Darrit as the "capital of the Marshall Islands."

Majuro - Pacific Haze

Ludanda - Essencia Total

Luanda [Portuguese: ˈlu̯ɐndɐ] (originally São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda, also spelled Loanda until the 19th century) is the capital of Angola and has approximately 9 million inhabitants (as of 2022). This figure refers to the territory that administratively belongs to Luanda. In reality, however, the city has grown considerably beyond these boundaries, absorbing existing settlements.

Luanda is now one of the largest cities in Africa and is also the third-largest Portuguese-speaking city after São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and ahead of Lisbon and Maputo.

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