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Hungary Wants a Bigger V4 – A CONVERSATION
25 June 2026
As the Ukraine Recovery Conference opened in Gdańsk under the shadow of Second World War grievances spat, those who keep Kyiv’s support ecosystem running must not be overlooked
This article is based on the original field research conducted by the author and Karolina Czerska-Shaw in Poland and Ukraine – Dunin-Wąsowicz, R. And Czerska-Shaw, K. (2026). Solidarity, Social Responsibility, and Sovereignty: Civic Values Driving Transnational Business on the Sidelines of the War on Ukraine. Europe-Asia Studies (forthcoming) as well as the Jagiellonian University’s Future Democracy Lab project, ‘People Powered: The Development of Translocal Civic Ecosystems Amidst the Geo-Politics of War‘
The Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC), opening in Gdańsk today, convenes under a diplomatic cloud. Days earlier Poland’s President Karol Nawrocki stripped his Ukrainian counterpart of Poland’s highest honour over the naming of a Ukrainian military unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, prompting Zelenskyy to return the medal and to send Prime Minister (PM) Yulia Svyrydenko to Gdańsk in his place.
While such spats do have an impact and may determine future policy directions, when we look back at the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, one of the most striking features is how bottom-up societal responses to the emergency foreshadowed, and in some cases anticipated, later institutional and nation-state efforts.
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