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Visegrad cooperation successful even in difficult times, says Hungarian FM Szijjártó
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Cooperation between the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia has proved to be successful even in the current difficult period, with the Visegrad Group countries planning to intensify their joint efforts in the fight against the novel coronavirus, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Wednesday.
The current situation has highlighted the practical advantages of V4 cooperation because all four members have helped one another in transporting citizens home from abroad, Szijjártó told an online press conference on Facebook after a videoconference with V4 counterparts. He also said that Polish doctors returning from Italy had been sharing their experiences with doctors in the other three V4 countries.
Eastern Partnership also featured on the agenda of the meeting, Szijjártó said, adding that
the pandemic would “completely redraw the global economic and political map, a development the European Union should be preparing for”.
“As the EU will have a need for allies, friends and partners, it is obviously useful for it to develop closer ties with its eastern neighbours,” he said.
The Visegard Group is the “sanity” of Europe … the balance of Europe will move eastward to the Baltics, Visegard countries, Ukraine, Romania, Balkans, and perhaps even Armenia and Georgia.