After a two-year break, the heads of government of the Vyšehrad Four (V4) countries met again at the official summit on Tuesday. The event was hosted in Budapest and in the nearby town of Gödöllő by the new Hungarian Prime Minister, Péter Magyar. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk arrived for the meeting.
After the meeting, a press conference awaited all the prime ministers, before which Magyar proposed a joint photo. The Slovak prime minister apparently thought that each leader would be photographed in front of his flag, so he remained standing at a distance, while the other three stood side by side, ready for the cameras to click. When they warned him to come closer, at that moment Andrej Babiš ran away and laughter broke out in the hall. You can find the VIDEO at the beginning of the article!
We will not raise topics that divide us
The countries of the Vyšehrad Four (V4) are smart enough to put only topics that unite them on the table. On Tuesday in Gödöllő, Hungary, the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic, Robert Fico, announced this after the meeting of the Prime Ministers of the V4. At the same time, Fico promised on behalf of the Slovak presidency that he would not raise topics that divide the V4. The correspondent of TASR in Budapest informs about it.
“We were very strong. We want to be very strong again. The four countries that make up the V4 must have that ambition.” said the Slovak prime minister, according to whom the annual Slovak presidency of the V4, which begins on July 1, comes in challenging times.
According to him, the informal meeting that preceded the plenary session showed what serious challenges the V4 has to respond to in practically all parts of the world. “For the entire V4, I want to say that we don’t want to be just the object of decisions. We want to be co-creators of these decisions,” underlined Fico.
The Vyšehrad Group is an informal grouping of four Central European countries — the Slovak Republic, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary. It was founded on February 15, 1991 as the Vyšehrad Troika by signing a declaration on cooperation in the Hungarian city of Vyšehrad. After the partition of Czechoslovakia, it became the Vyšehrad Four.
