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.…
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,…
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…
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 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…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - This time the French mainstream media were much more vocal than during the French president’s October meeting with the Hungarian premier in Paris. Emmanuel Macron’s trip to Warsaw on February 3–4 was described as a turning point…
By the editorial board.
Czechia - Miloš Zeman wants to strengthen cooperation between the countries of the Visegrád Group (V4) and Austria. The tenant of the Hradchin spoke on Czech TV channel TV Barrandov on January 24 about the Franco-German couple that is…
By Gábor Tóth, President of the Gateway to Europe V4-China Association.
Article originally published in English on GLOBS.
Central Europe, Hungary, China - Shanghai became the center of attention for a week in November where the first China International Import Expo took place with…
Interview conducted by Olivier Bault for the magazine Do Rzeczy : “Italy closer to the V4?”
An interview with Max Ferrari, journalist, international affairs expert for the Italian party Lega, and advisor to the President of the Region of Lombardy,…
By Nicolas de Lamberterie.
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš supports Orbán and severely disavowed his MEPs - an illustration of the youth of the Visegrád Group 2.0
Czechia - The adoption of the Sargentini report against Hungary (challenged by the Hungarian government because…
By Modeste Schwartz.
Hungary - For almost three decades, the very charismatic Prime Minister has accustomed the Hungarian and international opinion to the now traditional speech of Tusványos (named after the festival organized every year at the end of July in the…
By Ferenc Almássy.
Not everybody likes the rapprochement between China and Central Europe. Wishing to take its future in its own hand, Central Europe is looking for diminishing more and more its dependence as a peripheral zone of Western Europe and…