6 Jul

From the 1st of July, Hungary is the Presidency of the Visegrad Group (Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary), which was taken over from Poland after one year. The historical cooperation dates back to 1335 to the meeting of the Kings in Visegrad. The official cooperation among the four countries started in 1991. 


On the occasion of taking over the presidency, Tibor Stelbaczky, deputy Permanent Representative, Coreper I ambassador invited the V4 ambassadors to a working lunch at the Hungarian permanent Representation in Brussels.

Mr Stelbaczky said at the event, that we are trying to have common positions and pursue the coordination in all policies where possible and continue the preparatory work done by the Polish presidency in the last year. Moreover, ambassadors discussed issues such as the European Pillar of Social Rights, the posting Directive, the climate energy package and the mobility package.

Ambassadors agreed, that – following the successful tradition – meetings in the same setup will be held both at ambassador and at expert levels in order to find possible common positions or other forms of cooperation’s.