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23 August 2022
With Czechia currently holding the Presidency of the Council of the EU and Slovakia holding the V4 presidency, the traditionally Polish and Hungarian-dominated cooperation will have to contend with the more EU-friendly outlook of their closest neighbours.
On 1 July, the Czech Republic took the Presidency in the Council of the EU from France, and Slovakia launched its Presidency of the Visegrad Group. Those following politics in Central Europe might have noticed the direction both countries have been taking in the past months and the growing split between Hungary and Poland, and some became prophets of doom for the V4.
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However, while the Visegrad Group can be expected to play a less visible role in the Czech Republic’s and Slovakia’s foreign policies for some time, this is not an entirely new situation, and it certainly does not mean the V4 is falling apart.