Published on
22/05/2026 - 9:00 GMT+2
The Visegrád Four (V4) was set up in 1991 to guide these post-communist neighbours into the West. But beyond geography, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Hungary are bound by the same massive Central European automotive and manufacturing supply chains and a shared goal to protect billions in EU cohesion funding.
Their most significant political impact came in 2015, when their coordinated resistance forced Brussels to abandon mandatory migration quotas.
But this is no longer the poor relation of Western Europe. Central Europe enters this new chapter with economic strength.
