Visegrad 2026/2027

Basic informations about the project „Foreign Policy of the V4 Countries in a Changing World“

The Democratic Centre Quarterly (Demokratický střed), in cooperation with partners from Poland, Slovakia and Hungary, has prepared a project, supported by the International Visegrad Fund (https://www.visegradfund.org/). This media project will focus on the basic orientation, key features, and current changes in the foreign policies of the four Visegrad countries. The main findings will be summarised in a special English-language issue of Demokratický střed magazine. Experienced analysts and journalists from all Visegrad countries will contribute to the publication.

This special issue will contain 16 articles that will also appear in four issues of the Democratic Centre magazine and on the websites of the participating partners. The articles will focus on the role of the Visegrad countries within the EU and NATO, as well as on their individual relations with the United States, Ukraine, and Russia. The articles dealing with the EU will also address other formats of European cooperation involving the V4 countries. The texts concerning NATO will also examine the defence and security policies of the V4 states.

The Polish partner of the project is The College of Eastern Europe (https://kew.org.pl/), which is the publisher of the Nowa Europa Wschodnia portal, which focuses, among other things, on Central and Eastern European issues. Slovak partner is Bratislava Policy Institute (https://www.bpi.sk/), which, among other things, works towards strengthening democratic institutions and processes in the CEE region. The institute has an experienced team headed by leading Slovak sociologist Michal Vašečka. Due to the limited capacity of our potential Hungarian partners, we will not cooperate with one institution from this country. However, individual Hungarian authors will be involved in the project, these will be authors associated with the CEU Democracy Institute.