Charles Michel, president of the European Council, is expected to join Poland’s Mateusz Morawiecki, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, the Czech Republic’s Andrej Babiš and Slovakia’s Igor Matovič for the event with plans to discuss regional and European policies.
The meeting includes the signing of a special anniversary declaration and a separate digital declaration by the four prime ministers.
The schedule also features a panel discussion on the future of the region amid efforts to boost business, creativity and innovation.
The regional heads of government are meeting after the presidents of Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia last week 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 Polish postal service this week issued a special stamp to mark 30 years since the establishment of the Visegrad Group.
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.
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.
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.
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Source: IAR, gov.pl