The military alliance is indicative of Poland’s post-war aspirations to shrewdly solidify itself as a Central European power and NATO’s primarily European partner.
Presidents from the four Central European countries meet to discuss the war in Ukraine, the V4’s collective security, the ongoing energy crisis, inflation, and the potential expansion of alliance.
In the wake of the war in Ukraine, internal division within the Visegrád group is at an all-time high. The upcoming Slovakian presidency hopes to shift attention away from foreign politics to economic and cultural collaboration.
The European Union is not NATO, but Ukraine joining the Union, while undoubtedly symbolically effective, could further aggravate tensions between Russia and the rest of the European continent.
