Visegrád – The foreign ministers of the Visegrád Group met on Monday 19 July in the town of Komárom to discuss economic and migration issues, the stated aim of the V4 being to revive the economy and overcome the new migration crisis.…
Slovakia – Facing the prospect of the spread of the Delta coronavirus variant – 35 cases had been detected in the country as of July 13, compared with 14 as of July 8 – Slovakia, which is one of the European countries that…
Slovakia – Following appeals made by Zuzana Čaputová, Slovakian President, and Vladimír Lengvarský, Slovakian health minister, to the three former prime ministers of their country, the leader of Smer DF (populist social-democrats) Robert Fico, head of the government from 2012 to 2018,…
Samizdat No. 7. - Viktor Orbán's response to Mikuláš Dzurinda
Mikuláš Dzurinda refuses the idea I proposed in an interview with postoj.sk, on how the V4 countries need to work toward transforming the European Union’s German-French axis into a three-pillar, power center…
This article has been published online by Moszkvatér on April 25, 2021.
With the return of the United States, Central Europe is once again caught in the crossfire of Russian versus US interests. The Slovakian and subsequently the Czech examples show that…
This article has been published online by the Magyar Nemzet on May 6, 2021.
– Let’s begin with the hottest topic of the past few months, with vaccines.
– Yes, but there is an even hotter topic. Why are we sitting here, after…
This article has been published online by the Magyar Nemzet on April 12, 2021.
For the thousands driven from Upper Hungary, the EU has not brought justice.
In 2012 the Hungarian Parliament unanimously voted to make April 12th the Memorial Day commemorating…
This article has been published online by the Magyar Nemzet on March 26, 2021.
Exactly three-quarters of a century have passed since, on March 28, 1946, the Czechoslovak National Assembly enacted the provisions issued by President Edvard Beneš between April and October 1945.…
This article has been published online on December 8, 2020 on the site of the Századvég Institute.
In recent years, security and order and the conflict between human rights and political freedoms, such as mass migration and terrorism, have often been an issue.…
This article was originally published on Tysol.fr on March 5, 2021.
For the thirty-year anniversary of the Visegrád Group, and split this week between the PPE and Fidesz, Thibaud Gibelin takes a look and contextualises Central Europe’s uncomfortable, yet decisive, situation.
What was…
This article has been published by Századvég on December 11, 2020.
In recent years, the role of climate change issue in European politics and public discourse has grown significantly. Excessive sensitization and political polarization are directing an increasing mass of people towards two…
This article has been published online by the Magyar Nemzet on February 18, 2021.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's article on the occasion of the V4 summit of February 17, 2021, celebrating the 30 years of the Visegrád group.
Our nations feel…