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Visegrád group: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic Visegrád is one of the cities in hungary having a long and rich history.... The Visegrád group (also called the Visegrád 4 or V4) is an alliance of four Central European Central Europe quick summary: (the Polish[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] and the Hungarian[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] king held a meeting in the Hungarian city of Visegrád Visegrád quick summary: www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/visegr%e1d_group.htm   (452 words)

Central Europe The Alpine Countries and the Visegrád Group (Political map, 2004) According to several English-language encyclopedias, such as the Encyclopædia Britannica, the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica and the Columbia Encyclopedia, as well as the CIA World Factbook, the term Central Europe is taken to include: central-europe.ask.dyndns.dk   (815 words)

Visegrád group: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic Visegrád is one of the cities in hungary having a long and rich history.... The Visegrád group are the wealthiest post-Communist countries in Europe. The Visegrád group (also called the Visegrád 4 or V4) is an alliance of four Central European Central Europe quick summary: www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/visegr%e1d_group.htm   (452 words)

Visegrad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Visegrád group - a political grouping of central European countries. This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Visegrad   (74 words)

Youth Visegrad Club - Program Four Pillars of the Visegrad Bridge - Final Report The program's objective was to carry on cooperation inaugurated between Polish and Slovak youth in 2001 with the Visegrad Clubs and rolling it out over all the Visegrad countries, namely: Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Czech. In the afternoon, four groups of participants traveled to other near-border villages to find out what were the potentials to develop cross border cooperation and the local conditions and special factors present in the villages localized where various nationalities, cultures, and religions meet. Special T-Shirts with logo of Visegrad Fund and special button with logo of Youth Visegrad Clubs (four-leaf clover a composition of four flags of Visegrad Group) were prepared for all participants and guests. visegrad.pl /en/vb_report.php   (74 words)

Visegrad Four dispute over Benes Decrees - 27-02-2002 - Radio Prague Visegrad Four dispute over Benes Decrees - 27-02-2002 - Radio Prague In protest, the Czech and Slovak Prime Ministers, Milos Zeman and Mikulas Dzurinda decided to boycott a Visegrad Four summit in Hungary, scheduled for March 1st. Despite the fact that Mr Orban confirmed his stand on the decrees on Saturday, Czech and Slovak representatives believe that steps to resolve the dispute and continue with Visegrad Group meetings will be made after the elections. www.radio.cz /en/article/24446   (74 words)

Policy Briefs The Visegrad Declaration was signed during a meeting in the Hungarian city of Visegrad on 15 February 1991 by the presidents of Czechoslovakia and Poland, Vaclav Havel and Lech Wałęsa, as well as Hungarian Prime Minister Jozsef Antall. Furthermore, the concept of the Visegrad Group (or Visegrad countries) has permanently entered the dictionary of politicians and publicists, evoking univocally positive connotations with a stable region, consistent reforms and a maturing democracy. Visegrad has become a trademark and can be an example of integration to other regions, such as the culturally and geographically close Balkans. www.osw.waw.pl /en/epub/epunkt/2003/05/030513.htm   (3682 words)

Policy Briefs The Visegrad Declaration was signed during a meeting in the Hungarian city of Visegrad on 15 February 1991 by the presidents of Czechoslovakia and Poland, Vaclav Havel and Lech Wałęsa, as well as Hungarian Prime Minister Jozsef Antall. Visegrad has become a trademark and can be an example of integration to other regions, such as the culturally and geographically close Balkans. The Visegrad countries could offer the EU their experiences in contacts with Balkan states, as well as delegating experts and diplomats not only familiar with Balkan issues but also having good personal contacts in the region. www.osw.waw.pl /en/epub/epunkt/2003/05/030513.htm   (3682 words)

Marzena Krajewska - The Visegrad Co-operation The Visegrad Group could continue as a forum of regional debates and co-operation, regardless of differences of the different countries' approach to the role of the Group, or their perception of the Group in the context of national foreign policy implementation. In the Visegrad Declaration the ministers of transport of the member states stated that the use of environment-friendly means of transport needed to be encouraged, with particular focus on "combined" transport. The leaders of the Visegrad states expressed their belief that this co-operation could also provide a meaningful forum for the implementation of terrorism-fighting initiatives, such as stepped-up intelligence-sharing and other forms of anti-terrorist co-operation, and the establishment of a joint training centre for anti-terrorist units. www.sprawymiedzynarodowe.pl /yearbook/2003/krajewska.html   (3682 words)

MEETING OF THE PRIME MINISTERS OF VISEGRAD GROUP AND BENELUX A trilateral summit of prime ministers of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Poland and the Republic of Hungary was held in Budapest. The conference was held on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Visegrad co-operation. The Visegrad Four (V4) is the unofficial name for four central European post-communist countries - the Czech Republic, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Poland and the Slovak Republic. www.government.gov.sk /v4b_en/his.html   (3682 words)

nij 200 Visegrad cooperation seemed an unneeded burden and obstacle and so the Czech Republic became a “skeptic towards the so-called Visegrad group.” Meciar’s Slovakia was also skeptic, especially because of the issue of its significant Hungarian minority. A year later in Prague, the foreign ministers of the Visegrad group met with the so-called European troika (the current, former, and future presidents of the European Council) as well as with the representative of the head of the European Commission, Frans Andriessen. The history of the three-country group officially began on February 15, 1991 in Visegrad, a town in northern Hungary. www.idee.org /nij280.html   (3902 words)

Mobilitás The name of this grouping was chosen during a meeting of the President of the ČSFR Václav Havel, the Prime Minister of Hungary József Antall, and the President of Poland Lech Walesa at an event held at the north Hungarian city of Visegrad on February 15, 1991. All the activities of the Visegrad Group are aimed at strengthening stability in the Central European region. Originally, the group was called the Visegrad Troika and the Four is the result of the split of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic in 1993. www.mobilitas.hu /?hol=v4&h_id=37   (493 words)

VISEGRÁD.info Both Visegrad group and Benelux are regional groupings, which would like to advance their respective goals on the basis of mutual cooperation even after the accession of their members to the EU. Visegrad group, now presided by the Czech Republic, will meet on the level of PMs on the May 12 in Kromeriz in the Czech Republic; heads of states summit took place on the March 12 in Kosice, Slovakia. On 25 May at the meeting of Visegrad group's defense ministers held in Czech Komorní hrádek participants agreed on the need for a political solution to what was initially a military problem. www.visegrad.info /index.php?ID=groupevents   (1716 words)

North Central Europe As new EU members, the Visegrad countries are subject to the requirements of Directive 2001/77/EC on electricity from renewable energy sources, which requires the EU to increase renewable energy's share of total energy consumption to 12% and electricity produced from renewables to 22.1% by 2010 (Article 3, paragraph 4). Over the past decade, the Visegrad countries have continually restructured and downsized their coal industries by reducing the number of inefficient mines in operation, cutting the labor force associated with coal mining, and increasing awareness of environmental issues related to the industry in line with EU standards. Poland, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic (commonly referred to as Slovakia), and Hungary are members of the Visegrad Group, created in February 1991 at the northern Hungarian town of Visegrad. www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/visegrad.html   (6924 words)

Visegr�d group official homepage The Visegrad Four is an unofficial name given to the four Central European post communist countries the Czech Republic, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Poland and the Slovak Republic. The Visegrad Group reflects the efforts of the countries of the Central European region to work together in a number of fields of common interest within all-European integration. The name of this grouping was chosen during a meeting of the President of the �SFR V�clav Havel, the Prime Minister of Hungary J�zsef Antall, and the President of Poland Lech Walesa at an event held at the north Hungarian city of Visegrad on February 15, 1991. www.visegradgroup.org /group.php   (6924 words)

Visegrad Four demand changes in EU draft constitution - 13-10-2003 - Radio Prague Thirdly, the Visegrad Four have agreed that the calculation of qualified majority proposed in the draft Constitutional Treaty to come into force after 2009 should be reconsidered and changed. They also share the opinion that no special mechanisms ensuring close cooperation in the field of common security and defence policy needed to be established, as the European Union can rely on what the Visegrad Four have called "the Atlantic relation". Visegrad Four demand changes in EU draft constitution - 13-10-2003 - Radio Prague www.radio.cz /en/article/46250   (6924 words)

Visegrad group wants to jointly train pilots Visegrad Group countries and NATO members Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia want to create a center for training their military pilots, their defense ministers said after meeting Monday in Prague. The Visegrad Group was founded in 1991 to boost cooperation between then Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. Speaking for the group, Czech Defense Minister Miroslav Kostelka said the four central European countries were setting up a working commission to study the question. www.spacewar.com /2004/040524160446.k2uqcbi7.html   (110 words)

nov28.bns The decision was made during a Visegrad group summit this week, Polish Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak told his Lithuanian counterpart Adolfas Slezevicius at their Nov. 26 meeting in the southern Lithuanian town of Marijampole. The four Visegrad group nations, Malta, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Romania are ahead of the Baltics, he said. BALTICS IN FOURTH GROUP TO JOIN EU, SAYS JURSENAS VILNIUS, Nov 28, BNS - European Parliament Speaker Klaus Hensch indicates that Slovenia and the Baltic states are in the fourth group of nations aspiring to full membership in the European Union, Lithuanian Parliament Chairman Ceslovas Jursenas told reporters Monday. www.b-info.com /places/Bulgaria/news/94-11/nov28.bns   (529 words)

Visegrad group to meet in Poland on EU constitution crisis, enlargement - EUbusiness The prime ministers of the so-called Visegrad group gather in the medieval town of Kazimierz Dolny, 120 kilometers (70 miles) outside Warsaw, to discuss and adopt a common position on "the situation in the European Union after the French and Dutch 'nos'" to the constitution, Polish foreign ministry official Jerzy Chmielewski told reporters here Thursday. The Visegrad group was formed in 1991, when the communist bloc economic grouping COMECON ceased to be. Visegrad group to meet in Poland on EU constitution crisis, enlargement www.eubusiness.com /East_Europe/050610011359.2ptqhw4w   (384 words)

oct27c.rfe The group was formed in the Hungarian town of Visegrad in 1991, when the presidents of Poland, Hungary and then-Czechoslovakia met and pledged to cooperate in a joint effort to enter the European Union and NATO. Eastern Europe: Visegrad Group Seeks Revival By Jan de Weydenthal Prague, 27 October 1998 (RFE/RL) -- Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have recently moved to revive the seemingly moribund Visegrad cooperative group. This was further magnified by concerns that the establishment of a separate group of post-communist countries in East Central Europe could hinder rather than facilitate their acceptance by the West into existing multilateral economic and political institutions. www.b-info.com /places/Bulgaria/news/98-10/oct27c.rfe   (578 words)

Joint Statement of the Prime Ministers of the Visegrad Countries The Visegrad Countries express their interest in adopting the environmental standards of the EU as soon as possible and applying them efficiently with special regard to the preservation of their specific natural and environmental values. The Visegrad Countries are ready to contribute to and be helpful in the implementation of EU strategies towards Russia and the Ukraine. We welcome the signing of the Agreement Concerning the Establishment of the International Visegrad Fund regarding it as a crucial step towards realizing a very significant joint project to promote the development of cooperation of the Visegrad Group in the field of culture, science and research, education, youth contacts, cross-border cooperation and sports. www.mzv.cz /_archiv/enprohlas/v4prague.html   (1087 words)

Visegr�d group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia four) in order to further the process of European integration. The Visegr�d group (also called the Visegr�d 4 or V4) is an alliance of four Central European states: Polish and the Hungarian king held a meeting in the Hungarian city of Visegr�d. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Visegrad_Agreement   (1087 words)

"Visegrad Four" Hind Upgrade Moves Ahead (September 2003) "Visegrad Four" Hind Upgrade Moves Ahead (September 2003) The Hind helicopter upgrade program for the "Visegrad Four" nations has received a shot in the arm as the countries involved have begun sorting out funding and work-share agreements that have dogged the program since Poland introduced the idea as a cost-effective way to improve the attack helicopter fleets in Central and Eastern Europe. The four nations are also expected to shop the program for other potential partners in the region. www.forecast1.com /archive/ne/0011.htm   (1087 words)

EUbusiness - Visegrad four want EU membership for Ukraine During the summit, the Visegrad four, an informal grouping created in 1991 in the northern Hungarian city of Visegrad, agreed to seek a common position on plans for a future European constitutiion by September this year. He was speaking after a meeting of the Visegrad group in the Slovakian mountain resort of Tale, at which leaders of the four central European states were joined by Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich. Yanukovich also voiced concern that Ukraine's political and economic relations with the Visegrad four could deteriorate after they join the EU. www.eubusiness.com /imported/2003/06/113414   (1087 words)

A Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union --V-- The Czech Republic, Slovakia (together Czechoslovakia until 1993), Hungary and Poland, formerly satellites of the Soviet Union and members of the Warsaw Pact, which met at Visegrad in 1991 and agreed to co-operate in seeking membership of NATO and the EU as a route to total integration into Western Europe. All four countries are members of the Council of Europe and have Association Agreement s. Whether this flexibility weakens or strengthens the power of the nation state vis-�-vis the EU 's federalising institutions is an important and much debated question. www.euro-know.org /dictionary/v.html   (1087 words)

Warsaw Voice - Don't Make PfP 'Policy for Postponement' The removal of the iron curtain in the late 1980s placed the Visegrad Four (Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary) in a military-political vacuum, making them vulnerable to and fearful of possible unforeseen developments in Russia and Ukraine. Basic democratic institutions have been established (virtually all of these countries have experienced two or more democratic elections), the rules of a free market economy have been legislated, a two-tier banking system is in place, prices and foreign trade have been liberalized and laws regulating privatization and entrepreneurship have been adopted. Regrettably, when President Boris Yeltsin, under pressure from Russia's military, backtracked on his initial support for Polish entry into NATO, the West likewise backtracked on full membership for the Visegrad Four. www.warsawvoice.pl /archiwum.phtml/6279   (1087 words)

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