V4

Director of Europeum Vladimír Bartovic, in an interview for RTVS, commented the changes in relations between Czech Republic and EU, which are negatively affected by the current policies of the Czech Republic.

Our Martin Michelot, in his latest policy paper, explores the relationship of France and the Visegrad group from a perspective of Macron's strategies, a possible multi-speed scenario and a political Franco-German axis, outlining the long-term prospect of cooperation.

In an interview for RTVS, our director Vladimír Bartovic commented on the recent battle with the European Commission over double EU food standards.

Our director Vladimír Bartovic commented for Info.cz on the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) criticism of Poland stemming from the warning that such constitutional changes would lead to political pressure on the judicial system of the country.

EUROPEUM is one of eight receiving institutions taking part in the Think Visegrad Fellowship program.

Our Michal Vít contributed to the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs' publication titled Illiberal Democracies in the EU: the Visegrad Group and the Risk of Disintegration with a chapter on the broader context of political development of the V4 region in the light of the immigration crisis of 2015 and 2016.

On January 1, Michal Vít was a guest of the Studio ČT24 program, where he commented on the Slovak presidency of the Council of the EU, its successes and failures as well as expectations from the following Maltese presidency.

On December 9 we organized, in cooperation with Centre for European Policy Studies and European Policy Institutes Network, an international conference in the framework of the Think Visegrad in Brussels project. The report summarizing the debate and the issues relating to the V4 countries is now available.

In cooperation with Centre for European Policy Studies and European Policy Institutes Network we organise on December 9 an international conference in the framework of the Think Visegrad in Brussels project.

On 24 October 2016, we organised a private roundtable that brought together the four Ambassadors to the European Union of the Visegrad Countries and twelve amongst the most prominent think-tanks in Brussels. The meeting took place within the framework of the Think Visegrad in Brussels project and was hosted by the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the EU.

Our Research Fellow Christian Kvorning Lassen spoke to Rádio Slovensko RTVS on the subject of the migration crisis and crisis of the V4 countries due to the established checks at the internal borders of the Schengen area.

Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy (CEID) think tank, based in Budapest, in collaboration with EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy organised a workshop held in Prague on the topic of V4+ Ukraine and Moldova cooperation.