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22 June 2026
Warsaw comes home from the Baltic coast with a global reconstruction fund for Ukraine, a Taiwanese chip park and three submarines. The only thing Poland could not secure was a forecast under 37 degrees.
Central Europe, and Poland in particular, has rarely banked so much in five days. The Visegrád Group (V4) prime ministers reconvened on 23 June at the Royal Palace in Gödöllő for its first leaders’ summit in more than two years declaring the bloc back in business.
And they mean it. Hungary’s PM Magyar insisted that ‘the heart of Europe today beats in Central Europe’ and Poland’s PM Donald Tusk predicted that ‘Europe will start listening to us’ again, and he really meant business mobilising pressure points ahead of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) revision next week. On Wednesday, Slovakia inherits the rotating presidency on 1 July with a competitiveness and enlargement agenda that maps neatly onto the region’s wider ambitions and overlaps the Three Seas Initiative (3SI) it will chair in 2027.