{"id":2148,"date":"2019-02-10T13:57:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T13:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2025-05-26T14:02:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:02:59","slug":"czech-president-proposes-austria-to-join-the-v4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/2019\/02\/10\/czech-president-proposes-austria-to-join-the-v4\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech President Proposes Austria To Join The V4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>Czechia<\/strong> \u2013 Milo\u0161 Zeman wants to strengthen cooperation between the countries of the Visegr\u00e1d 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 strengthening its alliance by signing a new treaty in Aachen, which it \u201cinspired him the idea of enforcing enhanced cooperation also at the level of the V4\u201d and proposed that Austria join the Visegr\u00e1d Group (which already includes, in addition to Czechia, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary). \u201cI will go to Austria in March [on an official visit], we will see how they react to my idea\u201d.<br \/>\n<strong>This is not the first time that voices have risen in this direction in this alliance founded in 1991 by Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary in the Hungarian city of Visegr\u00e1d on the banks of the Danube in memory of an alliance Medieval sealed in 1335 in the same city between John I of Bohemia, Charles I of Hungary and Casimir III of Poland. The chairman of the Freedom Party of Austria (FP\u00d6) and Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache had already said to be in favor of such cooperation during the 2017 legislative campaign, while Christian Democratic Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (\u00d6VP) was more in favor of Austria being a \u201cbridgehead\u201d between \u201cGermany\u201d in the West and the V4 in the East of the European Union.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Czechia \u2013 Milo\u0161 Zeman wants to strengthen cooperation between the countries of the Visegr\u00e1d 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 strengthening its alliance by signing a new treaty in Aachen, which it \u201cinspired him the idea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"acf":{"subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}