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Think Visegrad Fellowship offer: Call for proposals 2024

April 19, 2024

The Think Visegrad platform, which brings together think tanks from the Visegrad countries, including the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, is offering eight visiting fellowships to non-Visegrad expert fellows for the period Summer/Autumn/Winter of 2024. The duration of fellowships varies from 6 to 8 weeks (based on agreement with the hosting institute).

Think Visegrad Fellowship offer: Call for proposals 2024

April 19, 2024

TN.cz | Meeting of the Visegrad Group Foreign Ministers

March 21, 2024

The current format of the Visegrad Group lacks common topics; the group fragmented into two pairs that have different opinions in many areas, particularly regarding the issue of Ukraine. However, the interests of Hungary and Slovakia are not in conflict with others, despite what their leaders claim. The conflict in the Middle East, where the Czech Republic is in the minority in its full support of Israel, was also discussed on this meeting. Viktor Daněk, deputy director of EUROPEUM Institute, commented on the situation within the V4 for TN Live.

RTVS | The Future of the Visegrad Group

February 29, 2024

Differences on key issues between the leaders of the Visegrad Four countries are now being widely discussed in the context of the ongoing summit in Prague. How the relations between the countries will develop, whether we are heading towards the disintegration of the V4 or whether this is an eternal partnership of reason, was analysed by Žiga Faktor, Deputy Director and Head of the Brussels Office, for the RTVS podcast Z prvej ruky.

RTVS | Summit of V4 Prime Ministers in Prague

February 28, 2024

Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk met separately ahead of the Visegrad Group summit in Prague, where the main points of discussion were the war in Ukraine and energy security. Vít Havelka, an analyst at EUROPEUM Institute, commented on the position of the Hungarian or Slovak Prime Minister and the overall direction of the Visegrad Group for Slovakian television RTVS.

TN.cz | Visegrad Group could unite over migration issue

February 28, 2024

The prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary met in Prague to discuss the war in Ukraine and the future direction of the Visegrad Group. According to Viktor Daňek, deputy director of the EUROPEUM Institute, migration will be another possible common topic and Donald Tusk will become one of the most important politicians in Europe in the next years.

ČT24 | V4 summit in Prague brought questions about the groups' necessity

February 27, 2024

The new Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk came to the Prague V4 summit asking whether the Visegrad group is still relevant. Cooperation on a high political level is complicated by the countries' different approaches towards the war in Ukraine. While the Czech Republic and Poland continue to support its interests with the same intensity, Slovakia and Hungary are reassessing them. Martin Vokálek, Executive Director of the EUROPEUM Institute, talked about the importance of the summit and the relations between Poland and the Czech Republic for ČT24.

Policy Paper | The Perception of Visegrad Group on Enlargement in light of the Russian War on Ukraine

June 30, 2023

A new policy paper, produced with the support of the Visegrad Fund project, analyses the views of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary on the further enlargement of the European Union. With the granting of candidate status to Moldova and Ukraine and the recognition of Georgia as a potential candidate in June 2022, the issue of reforming the EU accession process is becoming absolutely crucial and, in the context of the war in Ukraine, a divisive issue for the V4 countries. The authors of the publication are Jana Juzová, Ferenc Németh, Tomáš Strážay and Marta Szpala.

Policy Paper | The Perception of Visegrad Group on Enlargement in light of the Russian War on Ukraine

June 30, 2023

Nový policy paper, který vzniknul za podpory projektu Visegrad Fund rozebírá pohled Česka, Slovenska, Polska a Maďarska na další rozšiřování Evropské unie. S udělením statusu kandidáta na členství Moldavsku a Ukrajině a uznáním Gruzie jako potenciálního kandidáta v červnu 2022 se otázka reformy přístupového procesu do EU stává naprosto klíčovou a v kontextu války na Ukrajině je pro země V4 dělícím problémem. Autory publikace jsou Jana Juzová, Ferenc Németh, Tomáš Strážay a Marta Szpala.

Deník N | Climate change and the upcoming European elections

November 01, 2023

Climate change is an important topic that is increasingly appearing in various narratives in Czech political discourse. Our researcher Klára Votavová writes about environmental issues and the subsequent political response in her new commentary for Deník N, where she presents findings from the RevivEU project.