Source: Seznamzpravy.cz (CZ) - Boris Johnson announced at talks with the Prime Ministers of the Visegrad Group that a "Marshall Plan for Ukraine" was needed, which will help rebuild the country after it was invaded by Russia. One of the participants in Tuesday's summit between Britain and the four countries of the Visegrad Group - the Czech...
Source: Deník Štandard (SK) - V4, a free grouping of Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia, enjoys the highest trust. EU and UN support is just under 50 percent, and Slovaks feel the lowest confidence in NATO. This was shown by a survey by the Median.sk agency.
Source: Novinky.cz (CZ) - According to tradition, Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS) visited Slovakia on Tuesday as part of his first foreign trip as Prime Minister. He met his counterpart Eduard Heger (OĽaNO) at the seat of the Office of the Government. For example, they agreed to continue a joint meeting of the governments of the two countries,...
Source: Novinky.cz (CZ) - One of the most important topics at Monday's Visegrad Four summit in Budapest was climate and energy promotion. The leaders of the V4 countries, together with French President Emmanuel Macron, agreed on the need to support nuclear energy in the future and on the need to change the common approach to the protection of the...
Source: Novinky.cz (CZ) - Warsaw is fully supported by the other Visegrad Group countries, i.e. Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, in the current migration crisis on the Poland-Belarus border. The V4 Prime Ministers made this joint statement in Budapest on Tuesday. Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš confirmed his readiness to send Czech...
Source: Deník Štandard (SK) - We need to create an integrated Intermarium region, says Tymoteusz Zych, a member of the conservative legal think tank Ordo Iuris and the rector of Collegium Intermarium, a university that also aims to strengthen ties between Central European states. Intermarium may be a part of the European Union, or a separate...
Source: Česká televize (CZ) - After the meeting in Budapest, the leaders of the Visegrad Group and South Korea underlined the importance of the cooperation between the V4 and South Korea and announced further deepening of their partnership. The key topics discussed at the meeting included the fight against climate change, mitigating the impact...
Source: Deník Štandard (SK) - Central Europe has an important mission. To show the opposite of what Europe could look like. So that in twenty or thirty years, Western Europe can reconstruct its example. You will have to persevere, the pressures from Brussels are escalating and it will not be easy to keep your interests in the face of...
Source: Deník Štandard (SK) - On Thursday, Slovak Finance Minister Igor Matovič attended the V4 ministerial meeting in Budapest at the invitation of his Hungarian counterpart Mihály Varga. At the meeting, he stressed he considered the fight against tax evasion a top priority. This information was released on Thursday by the Press Department of...
Source: Deník Štandard (SK) - The Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and Serbia signed a joint declaration on Thursday saying that immigration should not be the answer to the declining birth rate in the EU Member States. They did so during a two-day forum in Budapest where they gathered to discuss demography and family...
Source: Novinky.cz (CZ) - The most ambitious project in the history of Central Europe. This is how Polish politicians describe the Three Seas Initiative - a group of twelve states located between the Baltic, Adriatic and Black Seas. From Estonia to Bulgaria, these countries want to jointly bridge the gap between the West and the East of the...