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Alongside Poland, Hungary has formed a semi-alliance of conservative central European powers, and has been an example of sorts for Western conservatives. They all should do more.Entrenched leftists within the U.S. State Department are supporting the effort to demote Viktor Orban from prime minister of Hungary, if a report in Financial Times is correct. The Biden administration also left Hungary off its invitation list for a forthcoming international virtual Democracy Summit on Dec. 9 and 10 to which some 100 countries were invited.“Trump and his enablers and those who invaded and attacked our Capitol, they don’t like the world we’re...

Václav Klaus, former President of the Czech Republic talks with Echo TV about the Central European Visegrad Group and the future of Europe. Klaus fears democracy “is gone” in Europe and he lashes out at the European Union and the gap between elitist governments and their citizens. Around 6 minutes into the interview Klaus is asked: Do you think that there is a chance to talk frankly about the very serious issues that determine the future of Europe, which were also the subject of the conference? The former President answers: “Mass migration co-organized by the European political elite based on...

Four Central European nations have hammered out proposals for the European Union that are intended to strengthen the voice of member nations and avoid divisions, Poland’s prime minister said Thursday. Beata Szydlo spoke following a meeting with her counterparts from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. […] Szydlo said that the joint declaration of the so-called Visegrad Group for a “better Europe” was agreed on Thursday and will be presented in Rome. It calls for EU institutions to take care of issues directly concerning Europeans, like security, protected borders, dignity, justice and equal treatment for each of the member states,...

The Czech Card of Russian-Polish Confrontation Simon Araloff, AIA European section President of Russia Vladimir Putin this week paid official visits to Hungary and Czech Republic – two of the four states forming the "Visegrad Group" (V4). During month and a half prior to that, the Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and the President Lech Kaczynski visited Prague. During the same period, the Head of the Polish Cabinet was also in the capitals of Hungary and Slovakia, and the President held talks in Kiev. The same as does Katchinsky's February trip to Washington, Warsaw's regional activity is aimed at guaranteeing...

The Visegrad Group - Polish Geopolitical Axis Simon Araloff, AIA European section Fifteen years ago the "Visegrad Group" (or V4) association was perceived by its founders to be a completely natural necessity for that period. It was a natural reaction to the political and economic vacuum formed in the central part of Europe after the collapse of the Council of Economic Mutual Assistance and the Warsaw Treaty Organization. Also it was a completely necessary tool for a dialogue with NATO and the EU. The Soviet giant collapsed on the east, Germany was uniting in the West. And Berlin with Moscow...