Visegrád Four Plans June Summit in Budapest as Magyar Pushes 4-Nation Revival

9 articles · Updated · Euronews · May 20

End-June talks in Budapest are being prepared to revive the Visegrád Four, with Hungary's new prime minister Péter Magyar casting his first trip to Poland as the reset's launch point.
The push follows a rupture after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, when Viktor Orbán's pro-Moscow stance isolated Hungary from Poland and weakened the bloc's influence in Brussels.
Regional infrastructure, nuclear energy, resistance to parts of the EU green agenda and the next long-term EU budget are emerging as the most likely common agenda items.
Slovakia, which takes the V4 chair in July, also backs a comeback, though disputes over Russia, Ukraine, Russian gas and bilateral historical grievances still threaten cohesion.
With a combined economy and population roughly comparable to Italy's, the four countries hope a more flexible V4 — sometimes widened to Austria or others — can again amplify Central Europe's voice in the EU.

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