{"id":5119,"date":"2026-05-06T08:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/5119\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T08:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:22:07","slug":"revival-of-the-visegrad-group-babis-fico-and-tusk-at-epc-yerevan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/5119\/","title":{"rendered":"Revival of the Visegrad Group: Babi\u0161, Fico and Tusk at EPC Yerevan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slovakia\u2019s Prime Minister (PM) Robert Fico <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RobertFicoSVK\/status\/2051277675600249151\/photo\/1\" rel=\"nofollow\">posted<\/a> a photo of himself with Poland\u2019s PM Donald Tusk and Czechia\u2019s Andrej Babi\u0161. Could this be a sign of renewed cooperation, and what does Ukraine have to do with it?<\/p>\n<p>The post went up on 4 May 2026, on the margins of the European Political Community summit in Yerevan, where 48 heads of state and government convened ahead of the first European Union\u2013Armenia summit on 5 May. Fico\u2019s photo with Tusk and Babi\u0161 carried the caption \u2018Three musketeers are waiting for the fourth and the revival of V4\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth musketeer is, on every credible reading, Magyar, whose Tisza party won a constitutional majority in Hungary\u2019s 12 April election and who is set to be sworn in as prime minister later in May. Already before the elections, during this year\u2019s Munich Security Conference, Magyar met with Tusk and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/magyarpeterMP\/status\/2022413570151948795?referrer=grok-com\" rel=\"nofollow\">pledged<\/a> to \u2018rebuild political, cultural and economic relations\u2019 with Poland.<\/p>\n<p>The setting matters. Slovakia takes over the rotating Visegrad Group (V4) presidency from Hungary on 1 July 2026 for a one-year term. Fico used Yerevan to open both a bilateral channel with Zelenskyy, agreeing to an intergovernmental commission session in Kyiv or Bratislava by the end of June, and a regional channel with Tusk and Babi\u0161 around a renewed V4 format. Separately, Tusk said he expects Zelenskyy could attend the next V4 summit as a \u2018special guest\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tNewsletter<\/p>\n<p>Weekly updates with our latest articles and the editorial commentary. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slovakia\u2019s Prime Minister (PM) Robert Fico posted a photo of himself with Poland\u2019s PM Donald Tusk and Czechia\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4251,857,64,4252,354,9,4253,1093,3350],"class_list":{"0":"post-5119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-donald-tusk","8":"tag-beneu0161-decrees","9":"tag-czech-republic","10":"tag-donald-tusk","11":"tag-fico","12":"tag-hungary","13":"tag-poland","14":"tag-pu00e9ter-magyar","15":"tag-slovakia","16":"tag-visegrad-group"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}