Visegrad

Martin Michelot and Martin Macq wrote an introductory chapter for the new IFAT's publication on the security challenges for the V4 countries.

Our Martin Michelot published a policy paper for the Institut Jacques Delors on the state of the rule of law in the Visegrad countries.

Think-tank 'Das Progressive Zentrum', in cooperation with the 'Foundation for European Progressive Studies', publishes a new title focused on the future of the Visegrad Group countries.

As part of the project 1918 CEE Identity, Gábor Egry has written an essay that relates to the approaching hundred year anniversary of the collapse of the Central and Eastern European empires, and author analyzes, among other things, the common historical heritage of these newly created states.

Alena Kudzko, as part of the project Think Visegrad, published a policy brief concerning the ongoing labour market reforms in the EU and recommends steps to be taken for the CEE countries, not to end on the economic and political periphery of Europe.

We are proud to present the third event from our pilot project Prague Climate Talks: Renewable energy in the V4, which will take place on November 6th, 2017, at the European house.

Our Martin Michelot, in his latest policy paper, explores the relationship of France and the Visegrad group from a perspective of Macron's strategies, a possible multi-speed scenario and a political Franco-German axis, outlining the long-term prospect of cooperation.

Our director Vladimír Bartovic commented for Info.cz on the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) criticism of Poland stemming from the warning that such constitutional changes would lead to political pressure on the judicial system of the country.

On December 9 we organized, in cooperation with Centre for European Policy Studies and European Policy Institutes Network, an international conference in the framework of the Think Visegrad in Brussels project. The report summarizing the debate and the issues relating to the V4 countries is now available.

In cooperation with Centre for European Policy Studies and European Policy Institutes Network we organise on December 9 an international conference in the framework of the Think Visegrad in Brussels project.

On 24 October 2016, we organised a private roundtable that brought together the four Ambassadors to the European Union of the Visegrad Countries and twelve amongst the most prominent think-tanks in Brussels. The meeting took place within the framework of the Think Visegrad in Brussels project and was hosted by the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the EU.

Our Head of Research Martin Michelot was quoted in an article by Le Monde titled In Bratislava, an European summit to "take control".