The Visegrad Group to build Budapest-Bratislava-Brno-Warsaw express railway

The Visegrad Group countries have decided to jointly build a high-speed railway connecting Budapest, Bratislava, Brno, and Warsaw, the Hungarian foreign minister said after talks with the transport ministers of the other three members in northern Slovakia on Monday.

The decision coincides with the political interests of all four members of the group comprising the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian public media at Lake Strba (Csorba-tó) in the High Tatras.

The public procurement tender for drawing up a feasibility study for the project will be called as early as this week, he said.

The next step will be to convene a Visegrad Four working group of officials representing the four countries in November, he added.

Szijjártó said the public procurement process would last for half a year and the feasibility study would be completed in a year and a half or two years.