... with a big opportunity due to Brexit.
“Big, bad Visegrád” – this is how The Economist labelled the semi-institutionalised cooperation between the four Central-Eastern countries Czech Republic, Hungary, ...
... are adapting to the new types of threats.
Visegrad region is standing relatively well in this new era. The region hasn’t suffer from any massive cyber-attack yet that could be compared to the Estonian ...
... Edit Zgut, Karolina Zbytniewska, Zuzana Gabrižová
Women in top jobs
Looking at average the situation is bleak. Less than 19 % of parliamentarians in the Visegrad countries are women, which is a level ...
No representatives of the Visegrad Group were assigned for the EU top jobs for the next term. The situation looks a bit better with regards to the European Parliament posts.
Written by Krzysztof Ryncarz ...
As NATO warns of rising numbers of Russia's hybrid acts and EU sanctions pro-Kremlin websites, two out of four Visegrad countries seem to be loosening their caution towards foreign threats, creating ...
... center and cooperate with the mainstream could be disrupted by Fidesz's effort to join the group. At the same time, the parties in the Visegrad countries could make or break Fidesz's bid to join the ECR, ...
... problem of Slovakia, which is increasingly moving away from the European Union and its neighbours from the Visegrad Four in electromobility.
He even urged that Slovakia ‘can no longer wait a year or ...
... in the remaining Visegrad Group countries, according to WindEnergy think tank. In both Hungary and Czechia, the share of wind energy in the same year was 1%. In Slovakia, the wind energy was so low that ...
The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the Visegrad countries hard but not equally in terms of seriousness and its evolution in time.
By EURACTIV.sk, EURACTIV.cz, EURACTIV.pl, Political ...
... power station in the Central European region. Poland, the Czech Republic’s partner from the Visegrad group, wants to increase its nuclear energy capacity as well and build a new nuclear power station based ...
Elif Gündüzyeli is a Senior Coal Policy Coordinator at the Climate Action Network.
By Aneta Zachová, EURACTIV.cz
Visegrad countries are not very ambitious when it comes to climate protection and ...
... and level the global playing field. The EU27 need to keep in sight the necessity to maintain focus on cohesion.
By Botond Feledy (CEID senior fellow)
This holds true especially because the Visegrad ...
... nor in Hungarian, Polish and Slovak. Then, Czechia is the only country from the Visegrad four that has already submitted its final Long Term Renovation Strategies required by the EU. However, Czech strategy ...
The process of drafting of national recovery plans under a difficult time constraints seems to be a handful for all of the Visegrad countries. The stakeholder involvement, streamlining their requests and ...
Visegrad governments should use the opportunity of the crisis for structural changes and reforms in the labour market, education and healthcare. They should also look beyond the GDP and embrace green transformation. ...
The attempts of China to gain influence is all the more reason to increase mutual cooperation between Germany and the Visegrad Group within our membership of the EU, says Renata Alt from German FDP in ...
Awareness of the dangers of climate change is growing in the Visegrad countries. The vast majority of the inhabitants of these countries also want climate neutrality in the European Union by 2050. However, ...
The recovery of European economies after the coronavirus pandemic may become – thanks to national recovery plans financed by the EU funds – a prelude to catching up with climate goals. Are the Visegrad ...
... behind its Visegrad neighbours.
By Zuzana Gabrižová (EURACTIV.sk)
Global superpower
If there is an global economic ranking where Slovakia repeatedly occupies the first place, it’s the car production ...
... and bringing things forward.
The topic of conditionality brings us to the Visegrad Group. Where do you see the biggest potential for Finland to cooperate with V4 and what issues are the most difficult ...