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- 31. December 2025

Policy Paper | From REARMing to SAFEty: Defence Capability Development Trends of the V4

As the European Union has significantly stepped up its political, institutional, and financial support for strengthening defence capabilities across the Union in recent years, the paper examines how the V4 countries rely on the levers of the “Europeanisation” of defence—particularly through European funds and frameworks for defence industry development. This aspect gains particular importance in early 2025, when the European Commission will assess national programmes submitted under the Security Action for Europe (SAFE) initiative for joint loan financing and decide on the allocation of funding for joint production, research, and development projects across European and partner defence industries, writes Tamás Csiki Varga in his policy paper.

Articles and Publications

- 8. December 2025

Policy Paper | Between Control and Contradiction: The V4 in the Age of the EU Migration Pact and Labour Shortages

Since the 2015 migration crisis, the Visegrád Four (V4) countries – Poland, Hungary, Czechia, and Slovakia – have adopted strongly securitised migration narratives focused on control, sovereignty, and national identity. Although the region faces only minimal migratory pressure, migration remains a key political issue, often invoked during elections and EU-level negotiations. Yet this narrative of exceptional threat contrasts with the V4’s growing dependence on legal labour migration from third countries, driven by shrinking working-age populations, structural labour shortages, and low wages in key sectors. This paper examines these contradictions and governance gaps, focusing on the tension between securitised political discourse and economic reality.

Articles and Publications

- 1. December 2025

Final report | The platform Revolution : Shaping the Fair Future of Platform Work in the EU and Western Balkans

Platform work in the V4 and Western Balkans is rapidly expanding but remains weakly regulated, creating risks for workers and social systems. Authored by Silke Maes, a research fellow at the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, and financed by Stiftung Mercator, this final report calls for region-specific reforms to strengthen legal frameworks, enforcement, worker protection, and data collection, supported by broader cooperation at national and EU levels.

Articles and Publications

- 21. November 2025

Background Paper and Recommendations of the National Convention on the EU | Czechia and the Social Dimension of Competitiveness in Light of the Draghi Report

How can the Czech Republic strengthen its competitiveness without undermining social cohesion? This question was at the centre of the roundtable of the National Convention on the EU, held on 21 November 2025 and focused on the role of the social dimension in the context of the Draghi Report. The discussion explored the sustainability of the European social model and examined which EU instruments the Czech Republic could use to support its economic, social, and regional development. The background paper and recommendations on this topic were prepared by Klára Votavová and Carlos Gómez del Tronco.

Events

- 22. October 2025

Platform Revolution: Shaping the Future of Work in the EU and Western Balkans

We are happy to invite you to our conference "Platform Revolution: Shaping the Future of Work in the EU and Western Balkans".

Events

- 16. September 2025

Housing Transitions in the V4 Countries: Challenges & Possible Solutions

EUROPEUM and JustGreen project invite you to join us for a dynamic discussion bringing together researchers from across the V4 region to explore one of today’s most pressing questions: How do national housing renovation plans match up with reality—and what must change for them to succeed?

In the Media

- 28. May 2025

Taiwan Insight | V4-Taiwan Industrial Cooperation As A Strategic Response To A Shifting Global Order

The European Union finds itself caught between new dependencies – on US LNG and Chinese clean tech. The Visegrád Four (V4) countries stand out as both highly exposed to these pressures and well-positioned to seize the opportunities from the ongoing green transition. Taiwan is navigating its own energy transformation while striving to maintain a technological edge amid growing geopolitical tensions and shifting supply chains, opening doors for potential V4-Taiwan collaboration. The article for Taiwan Insight was written by Filip Křenek, an analyst at the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy.

In the Media

- 26. March 2025

Tvoříme Evropu | Interview with the successful JustGreen project

In our first ever interview, we met Jovana Jović Tadić, Project Manager at EUROPEUM Institute, who presented the JustGreen project.

In the Media

- 24. February 2025

Euractiv | EU enlargement to the East: support grows but conditions remain key

The Central European countries - Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic - are unequivocally in favour of the enlargement of the European Union towards the East and the Western Balkans. At the same time, however, they stress that the path to membership must be conditional on fulfilling all the established criteria. Ukraine recognises that its integration into the EU will be a long haul, but every step forward means further distance from Russia's influence. Jana Faktor Juzová, a research fellow at the EUROPEUM Institute, commented for Euractiv.

Uncategorized

- 29. January 2025

Press Release | Do Czechs renovate their homes? And how popular are subsidy programmes?

On Wednesday 29 January 2025, EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy in cooperation with the Institute of Empirical Research STEM organized a presentation of new data for the media on the topic "How will the Green Deal affect housing in the Czech Republic and how popular are the Czechs with subsidy programmes so far? Research results on the possibilities of environmentally friendly renovation of buildings in the Czech Republic."

Articles and Publications

- 23. December 2024

Policy Paper | Democratic Participation, Integration, and Trust within the Visegrád Group: Twenty Years Since European Union Integration

This paper contextualizes and analyzes data pertaining to democratic participation, institutional trust, and integration of the Visegrád Group—Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia—into the European Union twenty years since accession. This paper explores the history and functionality of the Visegrád Group as a political collective both before and during EU membership. A representative survey across the four countries provides substantive insights into the current state of EU cohesion during a critical period for the community. Writes Henry Barrett in his Policy Paper.

Articles and Publications

- 30. November 2024

Report | Discussing Ukraine in V4 mainstream media

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, media coverage of the country has increased significantly. Interpreting and commenting on events, putting them in the news and shaping the debate about Ukraine's future prospects in relation to European integration has thus become an important part of the responsibility of most mainstream media. However, as the war drags on, the V4 citizens' awareness of the conflict has diverged. At different times, some topics have been given more emphasis than others, making the quality of coverage often incomplete or unconvincing. Some countries emphasise the autonomy of reporting, which in turn allows for broad and in-depth coverage, while there are regimes that narrow the information and use the topic of war to produce stories for domestic purposes. In the final report on the EUROPEUM Institute project, Oszkár Roginer-Hofmeister and others write.

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