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Surveys show Poles and Hungarians continue to like each other despite serious differences over Ukraine and Russia

Olivier Bault April 23, 2023

Poland/Hungary - Poland and Hungary, whose century-old friendship is often presented as the driving force behind the Visegrád Group, or V4, and more generally behind cooperative initiatives in Central and Eastern Europe (such as Visegrád+ and the Three Seas Initiative), have opposite…

News

Visegrád Group Summit in Košice

La Rédaction November 26, 2022

Slovakia – The Visegrád countries have held their planned summit despite press reports that the event would be postponed or even cancelled. Things actually seem to have gone smoothly, and there was plenty of agreement among the four Central European countries. Photo:…

Interviews

Janez Janša: “The political processes in Europe turned away from democracy”

Ferenc Almássy October 6, 2022

Interview with Janez Janša, former Prime Minister of Slovenia and leader of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka, SDS): "The political processes in Europe over the past decade and a half turned away from democracy." Janez Janša has been one of…

News

British Conservatives showing interest in Visegrád Group

The Editorial Board February 1, 2022

Visegrád/United Kingdom – The British may have left the European Union but they are not losing interest in Europe. While British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is leading talks about a possible alliance with Poland and Ukraine against Russia, Polish-born Conservative MP Daniel…

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

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…

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…

Society

Central Europe: The last bastion of Europe?

Thibaud Gibelin March 11, 2021

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…

Politics

Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Poland: some shared interests but opposing visions of a post-Brexit EU

Olivier Bault February 17, 2020

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…

Politics

Czech President Proposes Austria To Join The V4

The Editorial Board February 10, 2019

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…

Society

Building Eurasia

Gábor Tóth November 30, 2018

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…

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