In this episode In between Europe discuss the Visegrad Four cooperation, its past, present, and future with Wojciech Przybylski, the editor in chief of Visegrad Insight and chairman of Res ...
The Intermarium strategy was developed in Poland as a political doctrine at the turn of the 20th century. It was an attempt to answer the general question on how to rebuild a sovereign Polish state and ...
... of new and reinvigorated alliances such as the Three Seas Initiative, based on the concept of Intermarium, and the Visegrad Group (V4) that brings together the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia ...
... is a member state of the EU, NATO, Visegrad Group, Weimar Triangle and now promotes the Three Seas Initiative. On the other hand, Ukraine struggles to gain prospects of EU and NATO membership, as well ...
... ties between the member states. The signatories represent: the four countries of the Visegrad Group (Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia), the three Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) ...
... antagonistic to other integration and co-operation schemes and driven by plain desperation, if not fear, rather than intra-European political games – a major motivation of such projects as the Visegrad ...
... Intermarium concept. Then there are the various other groupings of GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova), the Visegrad Group and the BSEC (Organisation of Black Sea Economic Cooperation), which ...
... hegemons – the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Tsarist Russia.
Relations between Visegrad and the UK in a post-Brexit Europe Simon Massey
As a result of a close affinity with the UK’s customary ...
... 2015, the Czech Republic and the other Visegrad countries – Poland, Hungary and Slovakia – have been perceived as increasingly illiberal and xenophobic part of the EU.
What went wrong?
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... areas, thus taking down the burden from the countries which are attractive destinations for them, e.g. Germany or the UK. The common attitude of the Visegrad countries towards quotas declared a definite ...
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The Visegrad countries following Prime Minister Orban pursued a very strong anti-refugee stance. While Hungary and Poland did not at all take part in the relocation scheme, Slovakia and the ...
... also affect its relationship with the rest of the Visegrad Group. Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia had positive opinions about the former Polish prime minister's second term.
“Viktor ...
... states. The region has little experience of immigration from Muslim-majority countries compared to former colonising countries (or Gastarbeiter destinations) to the west. For populist leaders in the Visegrad ...
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Brexit can also affect the UK’s relationship with the Visegrad Group, as the country’s decision to open its labour market for citizens of the new EU members in 2004 resulted in an estimated ...
... and European cohesion, standing in opposition to their neighbours of the Visegrad Group. Romania faced the brunt of Orban’s Euroscepticism in 2015 when the Prime Minister at the time, Victor ...
... 2014, Solidarity Academy 2015 and Solidarity Academy 2016 (Visegrad edition) and Baltic Eye, the results of the Baltic Sea Youth Dialogue 2014 in Narva and Ivangorod http://balticeye.net/ and Regional ...
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AGNIESZKA PIKULICKA-WILCZEWSKA: In light of the Ukraine crisis and the refugee crisis, do you think that the Visegrad countries have any special role in addressing the challenges Europe is ...