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Slovakia’s Prime Minister (PM) Robert Fico posted a photo of himself with Poland’s PM Donald Tusk and Czechia’s Andrej Babiš. Could this be a sign of renewed cooperation, and what does Ukraine have to do with it?
The post went up on 4 May 2026, on the margins of the European Political Community summit in Yerevan, where 48 heads of state and government convened ahead of the first European Union–Armenia summit on 5 May. Fico’s photo with Tusk and Babiš carried the caption ‘Three musketeers are waiting for the fourth and the revival of V4’.
The fourth musketeer is, on every credible reading, Magyar, whose Tisza party won a constitutional majority in Hungary’s 12 April election and who is set to be sworn in as prime minister later in May. Already before the elections, during this year’s Munich Security Conference, Magyar met with Tusk and pledged to ‘rebuild political, cultural and economic relations’ with Poland.
The setting matters. Slovakia takes over the rotating Visegrad Group (V4) presidency from Hungary on 1 July 2026 for a one-year term. Fico used Yerevan to open both a bilateral channel with Zelenskyy, agreeing to an intergovernmental commission session in Kyiv or Bratislava by the end of June, and a regional channel with Tusk and Babiš around a renewed V4 format. Separately, Tusk said he expects Zelenskyy could attend the next V4 summit as a ‘special guest’.
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