Group of Visegrád
The Groupe of Visegrád (also called Visegrád 4 gold V4 or Triangle of Visegrád ) is an abstract group joining together four countries of Central Europe: the Poland, the Czech Republic, the Slovakia, and the Hungary.
Historically, the group of Visegrád finds its origin in 1335, when the kings Czech, Polish and Hungarian met in the Hungarian city of Visegrád.
Modern V4 started at the time of a top of the Heads of State or government of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland in the town of Visegrád the February 15th 1991, in order to set up co-operations between these three States, in order to accelerate the process of European integration . From there the first name comes from the group: Triangle of Visegrád ; these three States were going to become four with the partition of Czechoslovakia on January 1st 1993, but the term of “triangle” is used still sometimes.
Attributions
V4 contains a political design of the Central Europe. Indeed, it facilitated their integration with NATO and the European Union. After the Soviet implosion, these four countries had little if not influence in the European sphere. Therefore, their mutual consolidation made it possible Europe to prove their capacity to cooperate as States of the old Soviet block.
The Group of Visegrád, in spite of bad interpretations, is not at all an organization having like objective competition with the European Union. This sub-regional organization had the merit to make it possible its members to adhere consecutively to NATO and the EU.
V4 in disuse?
Since the adhesion of its members to NATO and to the European Union, much henceforth perceive V4 like useless and without concrete objective. There exists always however a continuity in the dynamics of the co-operations where those try to increase their interests in their sub-regional sphere, for example by the assistance to ONG or a common implication in the civil society. The Group of Visegrád allowed and made a success of the intellectual and cultural bringing together of former rivals.
External bonds
Site of the Group of Visegrád
International Visegrad Fund
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