Hungary wants to resurrect the Visegrád Four cooperation

Commenting ahead of a Visegrád Group summit in Prague on Monday, Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, said on Facebook that “there will be a great need for close central European cooperation in preventing a series of dangerous decisions from being made in Brussels”.

Szijjártó said Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia and Poland needed each other to prevent the mandatory distribution of illegal migrants, to stop low quality grain imports from Ukraine, to argue against taxes from being harmonised across Europe and against “the ideologically based discrimination” of nuclear energy.

“Of course, our positions on the EU’s response to the war in Ukraine and on peace are different; still, we are ready to continue cooperating in areas where our national interests coincide,” Szijjártó said.

The V4 cooperation halted after Russia’s invasion in Ukraine. Poland has a pro-Ukraine stance, while Hungary would like to remain a bridge between the East and the West. Last time, for example, the Orbán cabinet vetoed an anti-Putin EU resolution.

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