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The Czech Elections: Implications for Visegrád and the EU

Michael O'Shea October 28, 2021

Czechia – In a theme familiar to many in the West, polling predictions failed dramatically as Czechia held its lower-house elections on October 8-9. This time it worked against the populists, as the outcome was poor for incumbent Prime Minister Andrej Babiš…

News

V4 countries heading towards closer military cooperation

The Editorial Board October 18, 2021

Visegrád Group – On 13-14 October, the chiefs of staff of the Visegrád Four – generals Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi (Hungary), Rajmund T. Andrzejczak (Poland), Daniel Zmeko (Slovakia), and Aleš Opata (Czechia) – met in Balatonakarattya on the shores of Lake Balaton, Hungary, where…

Interviews

Tereza Hyťhová: “The V4 is the future of cooperation, as the EU could very well disappear”

Alimuddin Usmani October 8, 2021

Interview with Tereza Hyťhová, Czech MP from the Trikolora party: “The V4 represents the future of cooperation at all levels because we have to take into account that the EU may disappear one day.” Tereza Hyťhová has been a member of the…

News

Greece fires: Central Europe sends aid

The Editorial Board August 16, 2021

Greece/Central Europe – Faced with a large number of forest fires since the end of July, Greece – like Turkey and Albania – has appealed for European assistance. In solidarity with the Greeks, Polish, Czech and Slovak firefighters are already on the…

News

Economy and immigration on the agenda at Komárom summit

The Editorial Board July 21, 2021

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.…

Politics

Press statement by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán after a meeting between the prime ministers of the Visegrád Four and Slovenia

The Editorial Board July 15, 2021

9 July 2021, Ljubljana First of all, I’d like to thank the Prime Minister of Slovenia for inviting us. The cooperation of Central European countries is not a matter of theory, but of practical reality. As the Prime Minister himself said, during…

Politics

Bill Ravotti: The Central European cooperation is vital to combat EU juggernaut

Bill Ravotti July 12, 2021

Central Europe - The leaders of the V4 nations and Slovenian PM Janez Janša convened in Slovenia last Friday to discuss cooperation between Central Eastern European states (CEE) regarding mass migration, integrity of the nation state and other topics. Given the outrageous,…

Politics

V4 Defence Ministers’ Summit in Elbląg

The Editorial Board June 24, 2021

Poland – The four defence ministers of the Visegrád Group countries – Tibor Benkő (Hungary), Mariusz Błaszczak (Poland), Jaroslav Nad (Slovakia) and Jan Havránek (Czechia) – met for a regional summit on Sunday, 20-21 June, in Gdynia (near Gdańsk), where the Polish…

Society

Central European Dependent Capitalism

Yann Caspar May 29, 2021

“The merchant should precede the soldier.” Otto von Bismarck “People will remain peaceful as long as they believe they are rich and powerful enough to insidiously put an economic dictatorship in place.” George Bernanos “Why should we remain the EU’s dupes?” Viktor Orbán, May 2021 The Hungarian…

Politics

Viktor Orbán to former Slovak prime minister: making the V4 the equal of France and Germany in the EU

The Editorial Board May 21, 2021

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…

Magyar Nemzet

Interview with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on the Slovak Internet portal postoj.sk

Partenaire May 8, 2021

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…

Magyar Nemzet

Old dreams could come back to life

Partenaire March 30, 2021

This article has been published online by the Magyar Nemzet on March 28, 2021. The question of „quo vadis, union, quo vadis, Europe?” appears more and more often in European public opinion – especially considering that the current European Commission (not) lead by…