... their foreign policy agenda. This is perhaps why the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation does not list the V4 among Russia’s cooperation partners
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. Against this background, Russia’s bilateral economic relations with Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic continue to develop in a fairly positive vein. Relations with Poland, however, have for many years remained hostage to the politics of their history.
Three of the four Visegrad countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland) have already ...
... expense of social programs, and the frontline role in view of a potential armed conflict in Europe.
Vadim Trukhachev
Vadim Trukhachev: the Visegrad Gainers from Ukraine Tragedy
The obvious beneficiary appears to be the Visegrad Group of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, where both Russia-haters and opponents of sanctions are set to obtain dividends.
Domestic Politics
Newly elected Polish president Andrzej Duda, whose campaign was permeated with the Ukraine parlance and insistence on military assistance to Kiev,...
... off without incident and, moreover,
there were minor anti-Semitic skirmishes
. The best known event of the Czech “resistance” was the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, planned and organized from London and not by the Prague underground. Slovakia (1939–1945) and, to a lesser degree, Hungary (1944–1945) were fascist states, though there was no complete purge after the war and only leading Nazi figures were executed.
Poland differs from the Czech Republic, Austria and Hungary in that it really suffered from the actions of the Soviet Union: the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the subsequent division of Poland, like mass events such as the Katyn massacre, will always be used as counterarguments ...
... established in 2000. It accumulates and allocates resources to support regional interaction in cultural areas and rapprochement with the Eastern Partnership countries.
The Visegrad Group’s annual interaction plans are coordinated alternately by Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, with the Presidency rotating in late June
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. It is important to note that the Presiding countries’ plans often lack the main element – continuity. In other words, the VG represents a policymakers’ club or a regional ...
