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New stamp marks 30 years of Visegrad Group in Central Europe

16.02.2021 13:45
The Polish postal service has issued a special stamp to mark 30 years since the establishment of the Visegrad Group of Central European countries.
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The postage stamp is a joint project by Poczta Polska and its counterparts in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. It will be available in all four countries. 

The project comes as the prime ministers of the four countries are set to meet for a summit in the southern Polish city of Kraków on Wednesday to celebrate the anniversary together with top European Union official Charles Michel, the president of the European Council.

Meanwhile, ambassadors from the four countries have opened an open-air exhibition in Brussels to spread the word about the milestone across Europe.

The exhibition, entitled 30 Years of Visegrad Cooperation, features photographs, documents and other information about the regional cooperation drive and its financial arm, the International Visegrad Fund.

The display runs until March 1 in central Brussels, at Avenue des Gaulois 29.

Last week, the presidents of Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia gathered for a two-day summit in northern Poland to mark the 30th anniversary of the Visegrad Group and discuss post-pandemic recovery in the region.

The Visegrad Group, or V4, is a regional cooperation platform that the four Central European countries started in 1991.

Meanwhile, the International Visegrad Fund, launched in June 2000, is a key instrument of regional cooperation.

It aims to support projects “to bring together people inside the V4 region but also within Europe as a common continent," thus making "its own contribution to the process of the European integration,” according to a declaration cited by the Polish foreign ministry last year.

(gs/pk)

Source: gov.pl, poczta-polska.pl